It’s near time for the 2019 West Coast Ragtime Festival. I felt motivated to compose another ragtime song. This one took a couple of weeks off and on, and plus a lot of minor edits ever since.
This piece tells a short story about squirrels. If I could draw, I’d add illustrations.
- Farmer Bob is looking out his window and notices something
- A squirrel is getting into the bird feeder
- Bob constructs a slingshot trap
- Bicycle inner tube
- Colander
- Hair trigger
- The squirrel is catapulted into the trees
- Bob celebrates its funeral
- …prematurely, as it turns out the squirrel just comes back for more
- Bob confronts the squirrel, who bites him
- He flings it onto the roof
- He goes back inside, defeated
- He flings it onto the roof
The recommended tempo is 84 to the quarter note (duration 2:25).