🎹 Hollow Knight Main Theme Piano

Stoh· Intermediate· 196 notes· Tempo 55 BPM· 5,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is melancholic and introspective, carrying quiet sadness like rain on glass, moving as if time itself has thickened, confident and settled in its volume, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Minor Very slow tempo Moderate dynamics Flowing texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students ✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
2
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
14htotal 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

196
Total Notes
46%
Interleaved
2.72
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 17/25
46% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 4 notes/beat (avg 2.72) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: F3–G6 (38 st) | Left: D#2–G#4 (29 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
31 st (2Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Mostly mf - subtle dynamic shaping
Avg velocity 71/127  ·  Spread 16  ·  Range 64–80
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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
🤚 Left Hand
LowestD#2
HighestG#4
Span29 st (2Oct+P4)
Notes114
Widest leap21 st  C4→D#2
🖐 Right Hand
LowestF3
HighestG6
Span38 st (3Oct+M2)
Notes82
Widest leap31 st  C4→G6
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 4 semitones (M3)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  1 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  23 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 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
0%
Repeated
Only 0 of 20 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 8–9
Hardest
📍 Measures 11–12
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 13–14
3rd hardest