During piano playing and teaching, we should pay attention to rhythm changing of formal or informal rhythm, strong or weak beat, syncope or link line tercet or various slur.
From 1880 to World War I, New Orleans with its cafe and night club society became host to a new form of music based mostly on the blues, but also on marches and ragtime music.
And I think, I mean, one of the things I had to rethink was, well, what does syncopation mean, and what does syncopation mean also as a metaphor for Black progress, too?