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1901: Maple Leaf Rag has just made Joplin famous, and his publisher wants a follow-up. Peacherine Rag arrives, more relaxed than its big brother, with a ballroom elegance that makes shoulders dance on their own. Joplin considered it one of his best-built rags, and the MIDI proves the connoisseurs right.
Difficulty-wise it sits exactly between The Entertainer and Maple Leaf: the left-hand jumps widen in places, the right-hand chords fill out, but everything stays under control at a moderate tempo. A perfect staircase step before the monsters.
Peacherine Rag: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): D#5 F5 G5 F5 A#4 F5 G5 G#5 G5 A#4 C5 C5 B4 C5 D5 D#5 A#4 A#4 G4 G#4 A4 A#4 D#5 D5… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play Peacherine Rag on the virtual piano
Here are the Peacherine Rag virtual piano notes, in computer keyboard letters: the first 8 bars of the melody. 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: 41 notes
;RTRJRT6TJ
QQMQW;JJBHN
J;WQJ;WQJB
J;WQJWQJVB
▶ 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
A stride that widens gradually, without panic
The right hand's full syncopated chords
Moving through four themes without dropping the energy
Metronomic steadiness that makes people dance
Playing Peacherine Rag on piano with Pianovera
Treat each theme as its own piece with Pianovera's A·B loop: four loops, four days, and the rag is built. The per-piece accuracy curve will point out which of the four deserves a fifth day.
Open Peacherine Rag 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.
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 Peacherine Rag hard to play on piano?
We rate it intermediate: 1425 notes over 2:13, spanning G#1 to F6. The first thing to work on: a stride that widens gradually, without panic.
Where can I get the sheet music for Peacherine Rag?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (103 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 Peacherine Rag MIDI file really free?
Yes. Scott Joplin died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1901) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.
