The Entertainer

The Entertainer is a piece by Joplin, first published in 1902. In Freano it is rated “Hard” and is one of the app's 48 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 100 beats per minute. The melody has 35 notes and takes about 14 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 11 different keys, from D4 to E5 — a span of 14 semitones.

It brings in the black keys D#, F#, which makes it a good next step after the white-key pieces.

The fastest notes are eighth notes.

In Freano it is a right-hand melody; there is no left-hand part for it yet.

This melody was published in 1902, more than a hundred years ago, and is in the public domain. Freano only includes music that is at least a century old, enters the melody itself rather than copying anyone's arrangement, and writes its own left-hand parts.