A musical genre characterised by is its syncopated or "ragged," rhythm.
Blind Blake, one of the most famous Rag Time guitarists of the early 20th century
Blind Wilie McTell, an influential Piedmont and ragtime singer & guitarist
The Reverend Gary Davis, unique style played with only thumb and index finger
Thumb plays a steady bass pattern & fingers play syncopated rhythms between the bass notes.Open G Tuning
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As a 5-string Banjo player the open G tuning is a familar tuning as the standard 5-string banjo tuning is an Open G. Open G Tuning is not as widely used as the open D tuning and is mostly used for blues, folk songs and slide guitar.
One of the best known songs of recent times that uses open G was Dire Straits, Romeo and Juliet. As with open D tuning playing the open strings sounds a G chord.
Tuning to Open G
The standard Open G tuning is from 6th string down D G D G B D.
How to use the video tabs
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Each ragtime song on the Guitarist menu has some notes on how to play the song and also some alternatives for the bits which may be difficult. Each song also has an associated video tab.
If on some screen resolutions the video tab is not very clear or if you have any problems reading the video tab you can view the tab full screen to make it clearer.
Read More
Most of the articles have a "Read More..." button.
Click on this to view the complete article and to get access the video tab for the song.
