Hilarity Rag

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

• As written2526 notes
• Melody and a simpler left hand1622 notes
• Melody and left-hand roots760 notes
• Right-hand melody632 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 C7, with ledger lines
• Bass clef from A1 to G4, with ledger lines
• Key signature: 5 flats (D♭ major or B♭ minor)
• Accidentals: naturals
• Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
• Intervals: octaves, 7ths, 2nds (steps), 6ths, 3rds (skips), 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