The Entertainer

by:

Scott Joplin

genres:

Ragtime

Cover of The Entertainer (1902), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

this description is written in Org markupdescription: Scott Joplin's 1902 ragtime piano piece, later popularized by the 1973 film The Sting.

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Numbers are frets and 0 is an open string. Standard tuning (E A D G B E). Each group of six lines is one system; read left to right, one column at a time. This is a multi-section arrangement of the public-domain melody.

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[Part 1]
e|-------5-----5---5--------5-7-8-9---5-7-9---4-7-5-----|
B|-0-1-2-----2---2--------------------------------------|
G|---------2-----0-----2----6-7-8-9---6-7-9---4-7-6-----|
D|---------2---------0-4--------------------------------|
A|-----0-------0---------0--------0---------------0---0-|
E|----------------------------------------0---------0---|

[Part 2]
e|-------5-----5---5-------2-0---2-5-9-7-----7-----------|
B|-0-1-2-----2---2-------------4---------8-7-------0-1-2-|
G|---------2-----0-----2---------------------------------|
D|---------2---------0-4---------------------------------|
A|-----0-------0---------4-3---2-------------7---------0-|
E|-----------------------------------7---------0-2-4-----|

[Part 1 repeated]
e|-------5-----5---5--------5-7-8-9---5-7-9---4-7-5-----|
B|-0-1-2-----2---2--------------------------------------|
G|---------2-----0-----2----6-7-8-9---6-7-9---4-7-6-----|
D|---------2---------0-4--------------------------------|
A|-----0-------0---------0--------0---------------0---0-|
E|----------------------------------------0---------0---|

[Ending]
e|5-----5---5-------5-7-8-9---5-7-9---4-7-5------|
B|----2---2--------------------------------------|
G|--2-----0-----2---6-7-8-9---6-7-9---4-7-6------|
D|--2---------0-4--------------------------------|
A|------0---------0-------0---------------0---0--|
E|-----------------------------------------------|