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The Easy Winners

Solo and piano · medium (grade 3, intermediate) · 1 min · piano / 2-staff (treble melody + stride bass); playable as melody instrument + bass

'The Easy Winners' (Scott Joplin, 1901) -- the bright A strain of Joplin's ragtime two-step, engraved as a two-staff classroom edition in C major. Instrumental, no lyrics.

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Every version is our own engraved edition — free to read, print, and perform, with no royalty and no per-performance fee. We host the composition, never a recording.

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