🎹 Etude in C Minor Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Softly grieving, wrapped in a stillness that refuses comfort, this piece moves each note arriving like a slow-drawn breath packed with overlapping ideas and simultaneous motion, shaped by bold swells and sudden retreats of sound.
👤 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
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
2,634
Total Notes
0%
Interleaved
7.98
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
1/25
0% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 7.98) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: F#2–E7 (58 st) | Left: C1–C6 (60 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
6/10
19 st (1Oct+P5) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Wide dynamic range (fff avg) - strong expressive control needed
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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 | F#2 |
| Highest | E7 |
| Span | 58 st (4Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 1,317 |
| Widest leap | 16 st B3→G2 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | C1 |
| Highest | C6 |
| Span | 60 st (5 Oct) |
| Notes | 1,317 |
| Widest leap | 19 st D3→G1 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 4 notes · 1 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.5 notes · 2 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
35%
Repeated
29 of 83 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 45–46
Hardest
📍 Measures 65–66
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 81–82
3rd hardest
