Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
Weeping Willow
A ragtime two-step
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key signature
- 1 sharp
- Time
- 2/4
- Length
- 148 bars
- Plays in
- about 4 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 written2461 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1708 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots875 notes
- Right-hand melody729 notes
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from A3 to D6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from B1 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 sharp (G major or E minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: octaves, 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 7ths, 4ths, 6ths
- 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 from PDMX (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: Scott Joplin died in 1917. Credits