🎹 He's a Pirate Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is dark and brooding, moving through deep shadow and unresolved longing, dizzyingly rapid, notes tumbling over each other, assertive and full-bodied in its expression, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
5
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
26htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
39
/ 100
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
641
Total Notes
30%
Interleaved
2.77
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
30% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
5/30
Busiest beats: 4 notes/beat (avg 2.77) - comfortable density
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: D1–C6 (58 st) | Left: D1–F3 (27 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
48 st (4 Oct) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Moderate dynamics (ff avg) - clear expression required
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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 | D1 |
| Highest | C6 |
| Span | 58 st (4Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 303 |
| Widest leap | 48 st D5→D1 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | D1 |
| Highest | F3 |
| Span | 27 st (2Oct+m3) |
| Notes | 338 |
| Widest leap | 24 st D3→D1 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 29 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 169 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 1 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 1 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
18%
Repeated
Only 12 of 66 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 35–36
Hardest
📍 Measures 38–39
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 63–64
3rd hardest