🎹 The Ballad Of Sara Berry Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is elegiac and stately, mourning something irreplaceable with full awareness, carried along on an easy current, neither soft nor loud, simply present, maintaining a consistent and focused emotional level throughout.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🖐 Large Hands
⏰ 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
36
/ 100
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
1,518
Total Notes
8%
Interleaved
3.24
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
4/25
8% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 6 notes/beat (avg 3.24) - moderately busy
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
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Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: G#3–C#6 (29 st) | Left: G#1–F#5 (46 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
36 st (3 Oct) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Moderate dynamics (f 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 | G#3 |
| Highest | C#6 |
| Span | 29 st (2Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 159 |
| Widest leap | 14 st C#5→B3 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | G#1 |
| Highest | F#5 |
| Span | 46 st (3Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 1,359 |
| Widest leap | 36 st E5→E2 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 7 semitones (P5)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 20 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 19 semitones (1Oct+P5)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.7 notes · 404 chords
⚠️ 9 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
35%
Repeated
48 of 139 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 1–2
Hardest
📍 Measures 4–5
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 55–56
3rd hardest
