🎹 Chasing Cars Piano

Snow Patrol· Intermediate· 2,095 notes· Tempo 104 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Written in a busy, richly detailed texture, this piece feels warm and sentimental, rich with the sweetness of fond memory, walking at a natural human pace and confident and settled in its volume, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Major Moderate tempo Moderate dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 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
32 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

2,095
Total Notes
18%
Interleaved
4.65
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 4/25
18% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
Note Density per Beat 12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 4.65) - moderately busy
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: A2–A6 (48 st) | Left: D2–E4 (26 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large 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
🤚 Left Hand
LowestD2
HighestE4
Span26 st (2Oct+M2)
Notes1,349
Widest leap19 st  E4→A2
🖐 Right Hand
LowestA2
HighestA6
Span48 st (4 Oct)
Notes746
Widest leap24 st  A2→A4
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  457 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes  ·  204 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
39%
Repeated
45 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 79–80
Hardest
📍 Measures 87–88
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 103–104
3rd hardest