🎹 Shallow (A star is born) Piano

Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper· Advanced· 858 notes· Tempo 120 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This is a piece mysterious and haunting, drifting through fog with no clear horizon — moving with liquid momentum and confident and settled in its volume, woven into a smooth, continuous line, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Minor Flowing tempo Moderate dynamics Flowing texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students 🖐 Large Hands
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
10
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
62htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
49 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Challenging - needs solid technique and independence

858
Total Notes
34%
Interleaved
3.97
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
34% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 3.97) - dense passages
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: C2–E5 (40 st) | Left: E2–E4 (24 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
36 st (3 Oct) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 80/127  ·  Spread 0  ·  Range 80–80
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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
🖐 Right Hand
LowestC2
HighestE5
Span40 st (3Oct+M3)
Notes668
Widest leap36 st  D5→D2
🤚 Left Hand
LowestE2
HighestE4
Span24 st (2 Oct)
Notes190
Widest leap19 st  B3→E2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 34 semitones (2Oct+m7)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 4.4 notes  ·  102 chords
⚠️ 93 stretch chords (>octave)
Left Hand
Max chord span: 7 semitones (P5)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  61 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
44%
Repeated
36 of 82 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 10–11
Hardest
📍 Measures 30–31
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 34–35
3rd hardest