The Legend of Ashitaka (Intermediate), Tutorial/PDF

🎭 Emotional Character

This piece is softly grieving, wrapped in a stillness that refuses comfort, letting silence breathe between the notes, with a full but measured voice, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.

Minor Slow tempo Moderate dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody

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3 pages

👤 Suggested For

🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students 🖐 Large Hands

⏰ Estimated Practice Time

3

weeks to performance-ready

Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.

4hper week

18htotal est.

3hard segments

* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.

🎯 Difficulty Assessment

Intermediate

41 / 100

BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

795

Total Notes

26%

Interleaved

3.92

Avg N/Beat

4

Ornaments

Score Breakdown

🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25

26% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving

⏱ Note Density per Beat 12/30

Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 3.92) - moderately busy

✨ Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20

4 ornamental notes (0.5%) - no significant ornamentation

📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15

Right: F3–F6 (36 st) | Left: C1–F4 (41 st)

↕ Largest Interval Leap 10/10

35 st (2Oct+M7) - extreme leaps

🎚 Dynamics

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Moderate dynamics (f avg) - clear expression required

Avg velocity 83/127 · Spread 48 · Range 64–112

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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

Sheet music preview - The Legend of Ashitaka

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🤚 Left Hand

Lowest	C1
Highest	F4
Span	41 st (3Oct+P4)
Notes	345
Widest leap	35 st C4→C#1

🖐 Right Hand

Lowest	F3
Highest	F6
Span	36 st (3 Oct)
Notes	450
Widest leap	24 st C6→C4

🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density

Left Hand

Max chord span: 17 semitones (1Oct+P4)

0 stOctave2 Oct

Avg chord: 2.4 notes · 66 chords

⚠️ 4 stretch chords (>octave)

Right Hand

Max chord span: 17 semitones (1Oct+P4)

0 stOctave2 Oct

Avg chord: 2.7 notes · 104 chords

⚠️ 2 stretch chords (>octave)

↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing

No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.

🔁 Repeating Phrases

4%

Repeated

Only 2 of 57 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.

Repeated bar Unique bar

🎯 Suggested Practice Passages

The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.

📍 Measures 24–25

Hardest

📍 Measures 31–32

2nd hardest

📍 Measures 35–36

3rd hardest

🎹 The Legend of Ashitaka