🎹 La Petite Fille de La Mer Piano

Vangelis· Intermediate· 1,378 notes· Tempo 70 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is sorrowful yet proud, bearing grief with an upright and unbroken spine, letting silence breathe between the notes, with conviction and weight behind every note, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.
Minor Slow tempo Strong dynamics Flowing texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students ✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
4
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
22htotal 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

1,378
Total Notes
57%
Interleaved
2.94
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 17/25
57% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 4 notes/beat (avg 2.94) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: G3–G#6 (37 st) | Left: C#2–C#5 (36 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
31 st (2Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
ff
Uniform ff - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 96/127  ·  Spread 0  ·  Range 96–96
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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
LowestG3
HighestG#6
Span37 st (3Oct+m2)
Notes308
Widest leap12 st  G#5→G#6
🤚 Left Hand
LowestC#2
HighestC#5
Span36 st (3 Oct)
Notes1,070
Widest leap31 st  C#5→F#2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  24 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 7 semitones (P5)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  241 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 6 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
52%
Repeated
65 of 124 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 23–24
Hardest
📍 Measures 38–39
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 119–120
3rd hardest