{"id":482,"date":"2014-11-04T18:35:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/acousticsnapshots\/?p=482"},"modified":"2022-06-21T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:18:14","slug":"the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/neil-hogan-acoustic\/the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Life &#8211; A Ragtime Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Good Life - A Ragtime Excursion\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1tmbC32e0Jg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a title=\"Online Guitar Lessons from Totally Guitars\" href=\"http:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/\">Learn to Play Guitar with Lesson from Totally Guitars<\/a><br \/>\nOne of my great loves as a guitar player is playing classic ragtime arrangements. I recently revived some Scott Joplin pieces I first started playing in the 1970&#8217;s. That got me interested in composing them again. I had written a few many years ago, a couple of which appeared on some of my solo guitar albums. This time I started with the goal being to write something playable by intermediate students.<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Good Life - Neil Hogan - Guitar Lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/target-songs\/518-neil-hogan-instrumentals-\/7064-the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion-neil-hogan-guitar-lessons.html\">The Good Life<\/a> materialized over a couple sessions on October 25, 2014. Section A met my original plan of being somewhat easy to play, used some standard ragtime techniques, and included even clich\u00e9 licks and progressions. Section B pretty much stayed the course until the last line, which introduced a moving bass line, consequently raising the difficulty level a bit. Section C followed the traditional &#8220;trio&#8221; model, with a little lighter texture in the sub-dominant key. By the time I got to Section D, the plan of keeping it easy was completely abandoned and it started with a cascade of descending chords, closing with a flurry of arpeggios.<br \/>\nIn any case, I hope you like it and tablature will be available at Totally Guitars soon.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2523],"tags":[175,20,1536,2780,1534,2781,29],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neil-hogan-acoustic","tag-learn-to-play-guitar","tag-online-guitar-lessons","tag-ragtime-music","tag-ragtime-songs","tag-scott-joplin","tag-the-good-life","tag-totally-guitars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Good Life - A Ragtime Excursion - On The Beat with Totally Guitars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/neil-hogan-acoustic\/the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Good Life - A Ragtime Excursion - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/neil-hogan-acoustic\/the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-04T18:35:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-21T21:18:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Acoustic-Snapshots.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"244\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"acousticsnapshots\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"acousticsnapshots\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/neil-hogan-acoustic\/the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/neil-hogan-acoustic\/the-good-life-a-ragtime-excursion\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"acousticsnapshots\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d9ac5cbb33abb520d032f5486d1f67f1\"},\"headline\":\"The Good Life &#8211; 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