This piece capitalizes on the 'Alexander' trend in Tin Pan Alley music, blending ragtime elements with standard song form. Its harmonic simplicity and reliance on tonic-dominant shifts are hallmark traits of the genre.
Focus on the balance between the bass lines and the syncopated right-hand chords.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Alexander's Band Is Back in Dixieland is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 4.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Alexander's Band Is Back in Dixieland lasts about 3 minutes.
Alexander's Band Is Back in Dixieland is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Beija-flor, IEN 4 by Ernesto Nazareth, Beija-flor by Ernesto Nazareth, Cardosina by Ernesto Nazareth — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.