🎹 Scarborough Fair (easy piano) (2 verses out of 10)

Old English Ballad Simon & Garfunkel, 1966· Beginner· 193 notes· Tempo 120 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Written woven into a smooth, continuous line, this piece feels dark and brooding, moving through deep shadow and unresolved longing, moving with liquid momentum and confident and settled in its volume, 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
🌱 Complete Beginners 📖 Early Learners ✋ Average Hand Size 👨‍🏫 Teaching Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
1
weeks to performance-ready
A comfortable piece to learn in a few sessions — great for building confidence.
3hper week
9htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~3h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Beginner
14 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Easy - both hands stay in comfortable positions

193
Total Notes
17%
Interleaved
1.6
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 4/25
17% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
Note Density per Beat 2/30
Busiest beats: 2 notes/beat (avg 1.6) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: C4–D6 (26 st) | Left: C3–B3 (11 st)
Largest Interval Leap 2/10
12 st (Oct) - mostly stepwise
🎚 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
LowestC4
HighestD6
Span26 st (2Oct+M2)
Notes72
Widest leap12 st  D4→D5
🤚 Left Hand
LowestC3
HighestB3
Span11 st (M7)
Notes121
Widest leap9 st  A3→C3
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  1 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes  ·  0 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
10%
Repeated
Only 3 of 31 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
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 6–7
Hardest
📍 Measures 17–18
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 20–21
3rd hardest