What is ragtime A demonstration

For those of you who have been enjoying the ragtime music on my channel but may not know exactly what constitutes a rag, I thought I d make a little demonstration. I know I ve had people send me links to tunes, saying, This is a good only the tune actually was a march and not a rag. And I remember my own confusion at what syncopation actually meant when I was learning about music. Because we re surrounded by syncopated music today, it is easy to be confused by what ragtime actually