🎹 Ruby , My Dear Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Written in a busy, richly detailed texture, this piece feels gloomy and introspective, like twilight closing in before a long winter night, stepping carefully through each moment and confident and settled in its volume, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
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👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
11
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
67htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
51
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,662
Total Notes
24%
Interleaved
4.46
Avg N/Beat
59
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
24% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 4.46) - moderately busy
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
5/20
59 ornamental notes (3.5%) - occasional ornaments
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: C#3–A#7 (57 st) | Left: C#1–A4 (44 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
46 st (3Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
f
Moderate dynamics (f avg) - clear expression required
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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 | C#1 |
| Highest | A4 |
| Span | 44 st (3Oct+m6) |
| Notes | 834 |
| Widest leap | 35 st A4→A#1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | C#3 |
| Highest | A#7 |
| Span | 57 st (4Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 828 |
| Widest leap | 46 st A3→G7 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 13 semitones (1Oct+m2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.6 notes · 251 chords
⚠️ 7 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 13 semitones (1Oct+m2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.1 notes · 197 chords
⚠️ 2 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 9 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 8 runs · longest 23 notes
🤚 LH: 1 runs · longest 12 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
41%
Repeated
42 of 102 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 51–52
Hardest
📍 Measures 94–95
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 101–102
3rd hardest