🎹 The Starver's Carol Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Unfolding carried along on an easy current, this piece is volatile and expressive, cycling between despair and burning resolve — with many voices weaving in and out, maintaining a consistent and focused emotional level throughout.
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners
🎓 Intermediate Students
✋ Average Hand Size
👨🏫 Teaching Repertoire
⏰ 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
25
/ 100
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
221
Total Notes
20%
Interleaved
4.6
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
4/25
20% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 6 notes/beat (avg 4.6) - moderately busy
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
3/15
Right: C4–A#5 (22 st) | Left: F2–C#4 (20 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
6/10
19 st (1Oct+P5) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
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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
| Lowest | C4 |
| Highest | A#5 |
| Span | 22 st (1Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 67 |
| Widest leap | 7 st C5→F4 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | F2 |
| Highest | C#4 |
| Span | 20 st (1Oct+m6) |
| Notes | 154 |
| Widest leap | 19 st C4→F2 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 5 semitones (P4)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 1 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 4 semitones (M3)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 60 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
31%
Repeated
4 of 13 bars contain repeated phrases — a good portion of the piece recycles earlier material, reducing the unique learning load.
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 3–4
Hardest
📍 Measures 9–10
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 11–12
3rd hardest