Always With Me (Intermediate), Tutorial/PDF

🎭 Emotional Character

Unfolding balanced between urgency and calm, this piece is tender and optimistic, like the first warm day of spring — layered with activity that rewards close listening, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.

Major Moderate tempo Moderate dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody

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5 pages

👤 Suggested For

🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size 🎼 Scale Technique Focus

⏰ 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

39 / 100

BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

1,709

Total Notes

27%

Interleaved

3.31

Avg N/Beat

1

Ornaments

Score Breakdown

🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25

27% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving

⏱ Note Density per Beat 5/30

Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 3.31) - comfortable density

✨ Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20

1 ornamental notes (0.1%) - no significant ornamentation

📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 15/15

Right: G#3–C#7 (41 st) | Left: B1–E6 (53 st)

↕ Largest Interval Leap 10/10

38 st (3Oct+M2) - 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

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🖐 Right Hand

Lowest	G#3
Highest	C#7
Span	41 st (3Oct+P4)
Notes	832
Widest leap	19 st F#6→B4

🤚 Left Hand

Lowest	B1
Highest	E6
Span	53 st (4Oct+P4)
Notes	877
Widest leap	38 st F#5→E2

🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density

Right Hand

Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)

UnisonOctave2 Oct

Avg chord: 2 notes · 155 chords

Left Hand

Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)

UnisonOctave2 Oct

Avg chord: 2 notes · 360 chords

↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing

Detected 7 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.

🖐 RH: 7 runs · longest 19 notes

🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes

🔁 Repeating Phrases

6%

Repeated

Only 8 of 134 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 68–69

Hardest

📍 Measures 74–75

2nd hardest

📍 Measures 121–122

3rd hardest

🎹 Always With Me