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Monday, October 8, 2012

excerpted from The Easy Winners by Scott Joplin by Christopher Sung

In the second section, for the first 8 measures, we keep gravitating between E7 and A. Mms 3-4 are pretty tricky, so work out the fingerings slowly and then build up your speed. The rest is pretty straightforward, with a nice ascending diminished arpeggio in mms. 13-14 until we hit the descending A major arpeggio in measure 15. There are two other large sections of the tune, which I'll add in the future.

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