🎹 River Flows In You Yiruma Piano

Emmy Langevin· Intermediate· 840 notes· Tempo 65 BPM· 8,300,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is nostalgic and tender, reaching back toward a cherished past, letting silence breathe between the notes, with a light and considerate touch, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.
Major Slow tempo Gentle dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students ✋ Average Hand Size 🎼 Scale Technique Focus
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
3
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
18htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
42 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

840
Total Notes
37%
Interleaved
4.83
Avg N/Beat
52
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
37% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 4.83) - moderately busy
Ornaments & Grace Notes 5/20
52 ornamental notes (6.2%) - occasional ornaments
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: A3–E6 (31 st) | Left: E2–G#4 (28 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
26 st (2Oct+M2) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Uniform mf - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 64/127  ·  Spread 0  ·  Range 64–64
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🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand) Lower dot = LH (Left Hand) White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
📐 Note Range per Hand  ·  Sheet Preview
🖐 Right Hand
LowestA3
HighestE6
Span31 st (2Oct+P5)
Notes543
Widest leap14 st  B5→A4
🤚 Left Hand
LowestE2
HighestG#4
Span28 st (2Oct+M3)
Notes297
Widest leap26 st  G#4→F#2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes  ·  16 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 7 semitones (P5)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  2 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 8 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 8 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
13%
Repeated
Only 6 of 46 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
Repeated bar Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages ?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures (ô nhịp). The algorithm scores every passage by note density and interval leaps, then picks the 3 hardest for focused practice.
The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 18–19
Hardest
📍 Measures 24–25
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 28–29
3rd hardest