🎹 The Skaters Waltz Piano

Music By Emile Waldteufel· Intermediate· 3,411 notes· Tempo 160 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, racing through ideas with barely a pause and balanced and warm in its delivery, traversing a wide emotional arc through stark dynamic contrasts.
Major Fast tempo Gentle dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size 🎼 Scale Technique Focus
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
6
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
30htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
37 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

3,411
Total Notes
32%
Interleaved
3.29
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
32% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 12/30
Busiest beats: 6 notes/beat (avg 3.29) - moderately busy
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: A3–A6 (36 st) | Left: D2–G4 (29 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
32 st (2Oct+m6) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Wide dynamic range (mp avg) - strong expressive control needed
Avg velocity 56/127  ·  Spread 87  ·  Range 33–120
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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
LowestA3
HighestA6
Span36 st (3 Oct)
Notes1,399
Widest leap32 st  A6→C#4
🤚 Left Hand
LowestD2
HighestG4
Span29 st (2Oct+P4)
Notes2,012
Widest leap22 st  D4→E2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes  ·  318 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.6 notes  ·  643 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
55%
Repeated
146 of 264 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 52–53
Hardest
📍 Measures 191–192
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 239–240
3rd hardest