🎹 Hammers - Nils Frahm
🎭 Emotional Character
Gloomy and introspective, like twilight closing in before a long winter night, this piece moves moving with liquid momentum in a busy, richly detailed texture, traversing a wide emotional arc through stark dynamic contrasts.
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
5
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
26htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
38
/ 100
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
1,953
Total Notes
44%
Interleaved
4.16
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
44% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 4.16) - comfortable density
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
6/15
Right: F3–G4 (14 st) | Left: A#0–F#3 (32 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
31 st (2Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
f
Wide dynamic range (f 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
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | A#0 |
| Highest | F#3 |
| Span | 32 st (2Oct+m6) |
| Notes | 501 |
| Widest leap | 31 st F3→A#0 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F3 |
| Highest | G4 |
| Span | 14 st (1Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 1,452 |
| Widest leap | 14 st G4→F3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 32 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes · 0 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
67%
Repeated
79 of 118 bars share repeated material — over half the piece repeats, meaning you only need to truly master 39 unique bars.
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 93–94
Hardest
📍 Measures 95–96
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 112–113
3rd hardest
