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Tom Turpin (1871–1922)

St. Louis Rag

In Ragtime

Level
4 of 5
Key signature
no sharps or flats
Time
2/4
Length
133 bars
Plays in
2 to 4 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 St. Louis Rag
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 written2196 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand1596 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots910 notes
  • Right-hand melody782 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 G6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from F1 to G4, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), octaves, 7ths, 4ths, 6ths, 3rds (skips)
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Tom Turpin died in 1922. Credits