Interactive piano piece
Learn Chopsticks
Learn the real, correct version phrase by phrase with a playable score and a clickable piano - it never leaves the white keys. Follow the score, slow down the playback, loop short sections, and try notes on the on-screen piano.
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Press Play for the full piece, or choose Opening and switch to Wait for note for guided right-hand practice.
About the piece
Euphemia Allen wrote it in 1877 at sixteen, published under the pen name "Arthur de Lulli" - her only published piece, and now one of the most-played tunes in the world.
Learn the real, correct version phrase by phrase with a playable score and a clickable piano - it never leaves the white keys.
Get the alternating F-G "chop" even at a slow tempo before speeding up - most of what people play from memory drifts off pitch after the first line.
Practice path
Start with short loops.
Use the section list as a practice map. Start at 50% tempo, loop one section, then return to the full piece once the hand shape feels stable.
Use Play along for the complete score. On selected pieces, Wait for note turns the opening phrase into a step-by-step keyboard exercise.
Score basis: Pianodemy-authored MusicXML (public-domain melody). Public-domain song (Euphemia Allen, published as "The Celebrated Chop Waltz," 1877); MusicXML arrangement authored for Pianodemy. Attribution: Euphemia Allen ("Arthur de Lulli"); engraved by Pianodemy.
Questions
Before you practice.
Short answers for learners and for searchers deciding whether this is the right version to start with.
01What are the notes for Chopsticks on piano?
Right hand, alternating in quick pairs: F and G (twice through), then G and A a step higher (twice through), back to F and G (twice through), and finishing on E and F (twice through). All white keys, in 3/4 time.
02What key is Chopsticks in?
C major - there are no sharps or flats anywhere in the tune, even though it rarely gets played with any sense of the 3/4 waltz meter it was written in.
03Is Chopsticks a real piece, or just something people bang out?
Both. It's a real published composition - "The Celebrated Chop Waltz" by Euphemia Allen, 1877 - with a proper melody and left-hand part, not just the two-finger interval most people remember.
04Do you need two people to play Chopsticks?
No - it started life as a piece one person plays, though it became famous as a duet party trick. This arrangement is written for a single player, right hand carrying the tune.