Name: 1001 Rag
Channel: Heather Enid Wells
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. An authentically styled ragtime piece, this is all one guitar with no overdubs or multi-tracking. This is the final version and is shorter and a little brisker than the previous ones from 2009 and 2012.

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An authentically styled ragtime piece, this is all one guitar with no overdubs or multi-tracking. This is the final version and is shorter and a little brisker than the previous ones from 2009 and 2012.

original fingerstyle ragtime rag 1001 free tab

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Heather Enid Wells

Yet another songwriter-guitarist-singer. In that order. Though I earn my living mostly playing bass.

I play bass with various bands in many genres, and also perform at mainly acoustic-style venues as a solo songwriter-guitarist-singer (in that order)

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Guitar

Charts

Peak #111

Peak in subgenre #28

Author

Heather Enid Wells

Rights

Heather Enid Wells

Uploaded

June 09, 2013

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:09

Story behind the song

This is a difficult piece to play but great fun, and I now include it in my live playlist. 

There is free tab for this piece and for the rest of the album on my website:
http://www.travellingrecords.co.uk/sleepingdogs.html

The tabs are jpgs, just right-click on the tab, "Save As", then you can resize and print them.

The melody for the main theme was inspired by a TV ad here in England many years ago for 1001 carpet cleaner. That was sung in harmony, sort of doo-wop style with a Mr Bassman singer, and one day messing about on the guitar I thought "That would make a cracking Rag!" 

I added my own bassline, and wrote the other sections from scratch. 

My recording was done on a Parker Fly Classic guitar. Despite the name, it's a solid electric guitar, but set up to sound acoustic.

Lyrics

This is an instrumental, but the original that inspired it did have lyrics. 

They went something like:
"1001, 1001, gets rid of that workaday frown.
1001 cleans a big, big carpet for less than half a crown!"

Yes, the ad was that old... we haven't had half-crowns since before 1971!