Scott Joplin (1868–1917)

Elite Syncopations, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Joplin wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 1232 of the piece's 2238 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 1006 of 2238
Key signature: 1 flat
Time: 2/4
Length: 148 bars

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The whole easy version1006 notes

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The first 8 bars of Elite Syncopations, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 4 of its versions are on Elite Syncopations's page.

Score typeset by Benjamin Bloomfield for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Scott Joplin died in 1917. Credits