Scott Joplin / Scott Hayden
Sun Flower Slow Drag
A ragtime two-step
In Ragtime
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key signature
- 2 flats
- Time
- 2/4
- Length
- 152 bars
- Plays in
- 3 to 5 min
Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.
- As written2691 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1846 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots951 notes
- Right-hand melody799 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 G6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from F1 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
- Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: octaves, 7ths, 3rds (skips), 2nds (steps), 6ths, 4ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
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Score typeset by Daniel Škarda for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain. Credits