🎹 The Unforgiven Piano

JAMES HETFIELD, KIRK HAMMETT, & LARS ULRICH· Intermediate· 565 notes· Tempo 70 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This piece is achingly wistful, tasting joy and loss in the same long breath, 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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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ 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
34 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

565
Total Notes
51%
Interleaved
3.12
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 17/25
51% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 4 notes/beat (avg 3.12) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: A2–G5 (34 st) | Left: D1–D4 (36 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
f
Moderate dynamics (f avg) - clear expression required
Avg velocity 80/127  ·  Spread 47  ·  Range 49–96
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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
🤚 Left Hand
LowestD1
HighestD4
Span36 st (3 Oct)
Notes212
Widest leap24 st  A3→A1
🖐 Right Hand
LowestA2
HighestG5
Span34 st (2Oct+m7)
Notes353
Widest leap12 st  B3→B2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  85 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.3 notes  ·  3 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
49%
Repeated
23 of 47 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 2–3
Hardest
📍 Measures 4–5
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 25–26
3rd hardest