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Euday L. Bowman (1887–1949)

12th Street Rag

In Ragtime

Level
3 of 5
Key signature
no sharps or flats
Time
4/4
Length
107 bars
Plays in
4 to 7 min

Practise it

Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.

The opening bars of 12th Street Rag
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

  • As written1836 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand1166 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots673 notes
  • Right-hand melody566 notes

To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from G3 to F5, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from C2 to F4, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 2nds (steps), octaves, 7ths
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Euday L. Bowman died in 1949. Credits