The Aurora Rag

My first attempt at using Band-In-A-Box to create a Scott Joplin-style rag did pretty well, so I decided to see if I could do one that was longer and closer in structure to some of Joplin's actual rags. This is the result, and I think it came out pretty well. It sounds like something that might have been written by one of the many lesser-talented imitators of Scott Joplin; come to think of it, I guess that describes me reasonably well at the moment.

I called this "The Aurora Rag" because I like the sound of it, and in honor of Aurora Avenue North, which used to be the highway connecting Seattle with Vancouver, BC, but nowadays is just the main drag in my part of town.

For this song I created three different versions in two keys, and then used Logic Pro to splice parts of the three versions together in an AABBACCDD format similar to some of Joplin actual compositions.

Created with Melodist 180 - Scott Joplin fast rag
Key=Eb/Ab , Tempo 155
Style is JOPLIN.STY
Style MIDI Instruments are : Bright Piano (2), Replaced in logic pro with Steinway grand piano


Last edited by Tuneslayer; 07/20/22 07:57 PM.
Creede Lambard
Computer Nerd, Bon Vivant and Filker at Large
MacBook Pro/Monterey, BIAB 2022 UltraPAK
Logic Pro X, Audacity, lots of tools & toys
and a banjo named Tuneslayer