Candle-Stick is a vintage rag-style piece that captures the popular energy of early 20th-century piano music. It is characterized by its jaunty rhythm and accessible structure.
Maintain a consistent, bouncy pulse throughout the piece.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Candle-Stick is rated Henle level 2 of 9 — beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 2–3. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 2.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 2 — meaning you can already play level 1–2 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 Candle-Stick lasts about 2 minutes.
Candle-Stick 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 Blumenwalzer by Léon Jessel, Bluin' the Blues by Henry Ragas, Bohemia by Joseph Francis Lamb — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.