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Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin · guitar tab

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Scott Joplin's 1899 Maple Leaf Rag, the piece that made ragtime famous, a semitone up in A major (the D-flat strain becomes D) so it suits the guitar: a bouncing left hand under a syncopated tune. Quick and busy. About three minutes.

  • Standard tuning
  • 2/4
  • 100 BPM
  • 144 bars
  • Chord labels

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Arranged from the Mutopia Project's public-domain edition (a reproduction of the 1899 original), typeset by Chris Sawer.

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