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The Entertainer Piano Sheet Music & Notes

Composer
Scott Joplin
Year
1902
Key
C
Time
2/4
Tempo
72 BPM
Difficulty
Advanced · ★★★★
First note
D6

The Entertainer on piano

The full melody, rendered as engraved grand-staff notation (both hands) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

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Scott Joplin, 1902 — public domain, intro and A strain.

How to practise this on piano

Read the grand staff the way your hands divide it: the top staff is your right hand, the bottom staff your left — always by hand, never by pitch. The Entertainer is in C; find the first note (D6) and anchor your right-hand thumb near it before you play anything. Learn the hands separately first: right hand alone until it grades clean, then the left alone, then together at half tempo — the app hears exactly which hand drifted, which is the thing your own ear glosses over.

Keep your eyes on the score, not the keys; your hands learn the geography faster than you expect. Set the metronome well under around 72 BPM and only raise it after two clean takes. When hands-together breaks down, don't start over — drop back to hands-separate for the one bar your take review marks, rebuild it, and splice it back in. By the numbers, this arrangement runs 98 right-hand notes over 34 left-hand notes across 20 bars, the right hand from G3 up to E6 and the left hand reaching down to D2 in 2/4 time.

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