Recently I went to a concert of ragtime music, and I heard the waltz 'Please Say You Will,' by Scott Joplin. (I believe it was his first published piece.) The words were trivial, but I listened to the melody and thought "I could play that."

So I found it online, changed it from B flat to C, and have been playing it. It's a pretty piece, and my husband loves it. Scott Joplin was having fun with his scales in it, because it goes from C to Am to D to Em and back to C.

I've noted a very simple bass line, but it's just a suggestion. When I play it, I improvise something more complicated, but it's never the same twice.

I'm sending the MIDI to Joe, and I hope he can post here for Valentine's Day. (Thanks to Will Fly for the idea.)