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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The nickname is a misunderstanding: the publisher meant "small", not "sixty seconds". Legend has Chopin improvising it while watching a little dog chase its tail, and you can hear it in this MIDI: the right hand spins in perpetual loops while the left waltzes on, unbothered.
This is the velocity benchmark of the upper-intermediate repertoire, and our file doesn't cheat: fifteen notes per second on average. The secret isn't force, it's economy. Fingers glued to the keys, a wrist that breathes once per bar. Bring it up slowly or it sabotages itself, there's no third option.
The Minute Waltz: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): G#4 G4 G#4 C5 A#4 G4 G#4 A#4 G#4 C5 A#4 G4 G#4 C5 A#4 G4 G#4 C5 A#4 G4 G#4 C5 A#4 G4… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play the Minute Waltz on the virtual piano
Here are the virtual piano notes for the Minute Waltz, in computer keyboard letters: the 4 opening bars, then the theme. 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: 48 notes
HBHQJBHJHQJ
BHQJBHQJBHQJ
JQL;R5765R
R;;W;765R
R;W;RJ
▶ 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 right-hand spinning figure without tension
A left-hand waltz that ignores the panic upstairs
The long central trill and its clean exit
Raising speed by metronome steps, not by enthusiasm
Playing the Minute Waltz on piano with Pianovera
Pianovera's Scroll mode with adjustable speed was made for this piece: start at 50%, add 5% for every clean pass. The two hand colors expose instantly whether your left hand is getting dragged along by the right.
Open Minute Waltz Op. 64 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.
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 the Minute Waltz hard to play on piano?
We rate it advanced: 1370 notes over 1:30, spanning C2 to F7, with sustain pedal marks. The first thing to work on: the right-hand spinning figure without tension.
Where can I get the sheet music for the Minute Waltz?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (361 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 Minute Waltz MIDI file really free?
Yes. Frédéric Chopin died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1847) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.
