Green notes: right hand, blue notes: left hand. Preview played right in your browser with the app's real piano (lightweight version). Inside Pianovera: full multi-layer sound, fingering display and Wait mode.
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Schubert wrote it for four hands, two pianists sharing one bench, and it became one of the most famous marches on the planet: circuses, cartoons, school yards, everyone has hummed it without knowing its name. This MIDI file keeps every last note.
Fair warning: our file is the complete transcription of the four-hand version, dense, with its doubled octaves and full chords. It's a feast to watch in the preview and a genuine challenge to play alone; on a MIDI keyboard with a friend taking the other part, though, it's the original party.
Military March No. 1: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 F#4 A4 A5 D4 D4 G5 F#5 E5 E4 E4 F#5 E5 D5 D4 D4 E5 F#5… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play Military March No. 1 on the virtual piano
Here are the Military March No. 1 virtual piano notes, in computer keyboard letters: the main theme, after the opening fanfare. One key per note, read left to right; dark keys are the sharps, and a thin line marks each bar. The melody sounds an octave lower than written, so it fits on the keyboard.
Letters for a QWERTY keyboardYour keyboard: 32 notes
YT5E5E
WE5NMN
YT5UY5
TYT5T5EE5TYU9O
▶ Play on the virtual pianoThe piano opens with this piece loaded: the key to play lights up and waits for you.
What you'll be working on
The dotted march rhythm, square but never stiff
The melody's octaves, brilliant and loose
The full chords of the central trio
Parade energy sustained from first bar to last
Playing Military March No. 1 on piano with Pianovera
Use Pianovera's preview as an orchestral score: the transcription's density reads at a glance. To actually play it, slow to 60% and lighten the load: dropping some octave doublings costs nothing of the effect.
Open Military March No. 1 in Pianovera: the notes fall toward an 88-key virtual piano keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out. On a PC, it's falling notes piano software for Windows, with video export up to 4K.
Free, with no time limit and no ads: 30 pieces (10 in full, 20 in a simplified version), the first 10 lessons and 10 minutes of 3D hands (then 15 seconds per piece). Premium opens all 651 pieces.
Download the Military March No. 1 MIDI and sheet music
The work itself is in the public domain, and this MIDI engraving was placed in the public domain by its typesetter on the Mutopia Project. Use it freely, videos included.
About this piece
Is Military March No. 1 hard to play on piano?
We rate it advanced: 5133 notes over 4:32, spanning F#1 to D7. The first thing to work on: the dotted march rhythm, square but never stiff.
Where can I get the sheet music for Military March No. 1?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (189 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, Public domain license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the Military March No. 1 MIDI file really free?
Yes. Franz Schubert died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1818) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.
