Pineapple Rag · piano sheet music & MIDI file
Pineapple Rag as a free MIDI file: Joplin's sunshine rises in the preview, with the piano MIDI and sheet music PDF waiting below.
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.
By 1908 Joplin was living in New York, and he published this rag that smells of summer: a melody spiraling upward, sly answers from the left hand, and a trio that swings harder than almost anything he wrote. The Pineapple Rag MIDI is the quiet favorite of many ragtime players, less worn than The Entertainer and every bit as irresistible.
Good news: it's also one of the most approachable. The stride stays within reasonable distances, the syncopations are frank without being twisted, and Joplin's beloved "not fast" tempo suits it perfectly. If you want to enter ragtime through a sunny door, this is the one.
What you'll be working on
- A stride with sane jumps, perfect for entering the genre
- Frank syncopations set against a square beat
- The trio and its more singing F section
- The solar character: bright, never brutal
Playing Pineapple Rag on piano with Pianovera
Left hand alone in Wait mode for the first two days, as with any rag. Then the preview at 75% shows you the syncopation puzzle: the green right hand lands systematically between two blue notes. That gap is ragtime.
Open Pineapple Rag in Pianovera: notes fall toward the keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out.
Try Pianovera for freeDownload the Pineapple Rag MIDI and sheet music
Two files are waiting for you: the Pineapple Rag piano MIDI file (21 KB, opens in Pianovera or any MIDI player) and the Pineapple Rag piano sheet music PDF (126 KB, printable). Both come from the same engraving: what you read on the score is exactly what you hear in the preview.
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 Pineapple Rag hard to play on piano?
We rate it intermediate: 2483 notes over 2:57, spanning A#1 to F6. The first thing to work on: a stride with sane jumps, perfect for entering the genre.
Where can I get the sheet music for Pineapple Rag?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (126 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 Pineapple Rag MIDI file really free?
Yes. Scott Joplin died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1908) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.