The Washington Post
by John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) · Early modern · Advanced
Versions
| Version | Level | Key | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced · Level 4 | 4 of 5 | G major | 2:32 |
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- Era
- Early modern (1890–1930)
- Mood
- Calm · slow and peaceful
- Versions
- 1
About this piece
The Washington Post is a calm early-20th-century piece by John Philip Sousa (1854–1932). There is one arrangement: Advanced (level 4 of 5), 2:32 long, in G major.
About John Philip Sousa (1854–1932): American composer and bandmaster known as the March King, the composer of The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896).
How to play The Washington Post on piano
- Expect weeks, not days. Learn it section by section and keep a list of the hardest passages to practise first in every session.
- Slow practice is the fastest way forward: loop the difficult bars at 50% until they are clean, then 75%, then full speed.
- Decide on fingering early for fast passages and write it down; changing fingering later costs more time than it saves.
- Short daily sessions beat one long weekly one. Ten focused minutes a day is enough to make steady progress.
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License and credits
Typeset by Renato Biolcati Rinaldi for the Mutopia Project. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Source: Mutopia Project.
The source file may be shared and adapted, also commercially, with credit to the typesetter and adaptations under the same license; the preview on this page is an excerpt of it, under that license.
Text events such as lyrics were removed; the notes are as published. The player on this page plays the first 20 seconds.
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