🎹 The Swan Sheet Piano

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)· Intermediate· 740 notes· Tempo 71 BPM· 5,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Unfolding stepping carefully through each moment, this piece is gentle and lyrical, smiling through every phrase — in a busy, richly detailed texture, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Major Slow tempo Gentle dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate 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
34 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

740
Total Notes
59%
Interleaved
4.54
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 17/25
59% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 4.54) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: B3–A5 (22 st) | Left: E1–D4 (34 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required
Avg velocity 62/127  ·  Spread 47  ·  Range 33–80
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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
LowestB3
HighestA5
Span22 st (1Oct+m7)
Notes113
Widest leap8 st  G4→B3
🤚 Left Hand
LowestE1
HighestD4
Span34 st (2Oct+m7)
Notes627
Widest leap24 st  A3→A1
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes  ·  0 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  11 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 5 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 5 runs · longest 9 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 1 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
12%
Repeated
Only 5 of 42 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 1–2
Hardest
📍 Measures 11–12
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 20–21
3rd hardest