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Scott Joplin (1868–1917)

The Easy Winners

A ragtime two-step

In Ragtime

Level
5 of 5
Key signature
4 flats
Time
2/4
Length
152 bars
Plays in
3 to 5 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 The Easy Winners
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 written2524 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand1888 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots961 notes
  • Right-hand melody814 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 D6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from A1 to G4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 4 flats (A♭ major or F minor)
  • Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: octaves, 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 5ths, 6ths, 7ths
  • 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

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