Play Maple Leaf Rag today
Install Freano and the piece is ready. No account, no card number.
Joplin · 1899 · Hard
Maple Leaf Rag is a piece by Joplin, first published in 1899. 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 29 notes and takes about 10 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.
It uses 8 different keys, from C4 to E5 — a span of 16 semitones.
Everything is on the white keys, which makes it a good choice in your first weeks.
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 1899, 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.
Install Freano and the piece is ready. No account, no card number.