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"I want to pass on the joy of playing this music to others, just as Rev. Davis passed it on to me."

From the September 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER During the late 1800s, a new style of music—ragtime, some say named for its ragged rhythms—emerged in saloons in St. Louis. Composer-pianists like Scott Joplin, the “King of Ragtime” with his “Maple Leaf Rag,” wrote compositions that combined extensive syncopations with marching band–inspired themes. Ragtime faded in popularity…

From the January/February 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY PATRICK GRANT New Orleans-born pianist Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton, was an early ragtime pianist who was present at the birth of jazz and even boasted of having invented it. Whatever the merits of that claim, Morton certainly played a significant role in the evolution of ragtime…

Here we explore the styles and history of fingerstyle guitar, as well as some of the more influential players and examples of the technique in different genres.