🎹 Movin' Out Piano

Words And Music By Billy Joel· Advanced· 2,781 notes· Tempo 132 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This is a piece dark and brooding, moving through deep shadow and unresolved longing — moving with liquid momentum and confident and settled in its volume, in a thick, saturated texture, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Minor Flowing tempo Moderate dynamics Dense texture Leaping melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students 🖐 Large Hands
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
13
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
77htotal 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

2,781
Total Notes
16%
Interleaved
6.36
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 4/25
16% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
Note Density per Beat 20/30
Busiest beats: 9 notes/beat (avg 6.36) - dense passages
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 15/15
Right: D3–A4 (19 st) | Left: D1–C#6 (59 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
54 st (4Oct+TT) - 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
LowestD3
HighestA4
Span19 st (1Oct+P5)
Notes413
Widest leap14 st  D3→E4
🤚 Left Hand
LowestD1
HighestC#6
Span59 st (4Oct+M7)
Notes2,368
Widest leap54 st  C#6→G1
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes  ·  0 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 54 semitones (4Oct+TT)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.5 notes  ·  664 chords
⚠️ 257 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
55%
Repeated
63 of 114 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 32–33
Hardest
📍 Measures 63–64
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 86–87
3rd hardest