Public-domain song
The Entertainer
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 2/4
- Origin
- The rag’s first strain, published 1902; Part 1 is its opening phrase.
Public domain: by Scott Joplin, who died in 1917; first published in 1902.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 5 bars, 18 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 66
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- D4 to E5
- Note values
- dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 17 bars, 77 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 76
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Range
- D4 to E5
- Note values
- dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.