Scott Joplin (1868–1917)

The Easy Winners, 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 1563 of the piece's 2524 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 4 of 7, where the piece as written is level 5.

Level: 4 of 7
As written: Level 5
Notes: 961 of 2524
Key signature: 4 flats
Time: 2/4
Length: 152 bars

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The whole easy version961 notes

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The first 8 bars of The Easy Winners, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 5, and all 4 of its versions are on The Easy Winners's page.

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