While choro was developed at the same time as ragtime, the roles of the hands for the pianist are oppo- site, In ragtime, the left hand plays a lot of steady eighth-note alternations of bass and chords against which the right hand “rags,” whereas in choro, the right hand is steadier and the left hand more syneo- pated. In either case, the combined effect produces similar results. Here for purposes of comparison is a ragtime setting of the same passage. oO Ex.23 Example 24 is from the B section of “First Choro.” Work it out one hand a time. Play the right hand smoothly, applying gentle accents where indicated. You don’t have to accent the tied notes as they are already emphasized by virtue of being held, x24 ® ‘The score for “First Choro" begins on the next page. Listen (Track 18) and notice how the pandeiro helps lock in the groove. When you play the tune, phrase your right-hand lines the same way as the pan- deito does, adding occasional accents on the first and/or fourth sixteenth note in a group, or connecting the last sixteenth note in a measure smoothly to the first one in the next measure. ‘Try to remember the pandeito groove when playing on your own. ‘On the CD's data session, you will find versions of “First Choro” in a Louisiana style, and a track that excludes the right-hand piano part for play-along, 19