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Christopher SchlegelRagtime ExerciseVideo Player Not LoadedPlease upgrade your flash playerOur custom video playerrequires the latest version of Macromedia Flash. Macromedia Flash is a safe, free, quick download, useful all over the Internet. Get Flash Here's an exercise that is characteristic of "Ragtime" music! Notice that both hands are working with ONLY the notes of a C major chord but in different ways. The right hand is playing the notes of a C major chord one at a time in this pattern: G - C - E - G - E - G - E (repeat) While the left hand is alternating between two different inversions of a C major chord: C - then E & G together Down to a lower G - then C & E together (repeat) Play it slowly at first and gradually build up speed. 
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