As you have probably figured out by now, most of my posts have been music-based, and will continue to be music-based for a while. I really like music, I play the piano, and I know too many songs to not share a quite extensive list of my favorites. No, I cannot play the Paragon Rag on the piano, unfortunately. It is a song that I would like to learn soon, though. The Paragon Rag is one of Scott Joplin's more popular songs, and one of my favorites. Although I really enjoy playing ragtime music, I have always had a hard time with it -- I will learn a song quite well, but the quality of my playing will inevitably begin to degrade with time regardless of how much I practice. Therefore, ragtime represents a struggle for me, and the concept of having great expectations for myself. I actually enjoy these challenges, although it is frustrating when my playing does begin to degrade, and really the only way I can keep playing ragtime passably is to learn a new song once my old one begins to degrade. And, Paragon Rag is next on the list!
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Author My name is Peter Fisher. I am a freshman at High Tech High North County, and this page is for the Moral Compass project that we are currently working on in my Humanities class. Archives
April 2014
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