Last edited by John Kelly; Dec-04-2021 at 4:03am. Reason: typos
I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. - Eric Morecambe
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Its 4/4 for sure. That is the fun of ragtime, melodies that scrape against rhythms. it is deliberately a 4/4 rhythm in which a melody that repeats every three is played. It is a 1,2,3,1 ... 2,3,1,2 ... 3,1,2,3 kind of a thing, and once your mind is bothered into obeying, there is the 1,2,3,ahhh,2,3,4 to further screw around with your sense of things.
The confusion is why I love it.
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