🎹 Por una cabeza Piano

Música: Carlos Gardel Arreglo Didáctico: Javier Tucat Moreno· Intermediate· 613 notes· Tempo 96 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Written woven into a smooth, continuous line, this piece feels bittersweet and nostalgic, reaching for something beautiful just out of grasp, walking at a natural human pace and assertive and full-bodied in its expression, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Minor Moderate tempo Strong dynamics Flowing texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
3
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
18htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
34 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

613
Total Notes
34%
Interleaved
2.45
Avg N/Beat
2
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
34% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 4 notes/beat (avg 2.45) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
2 ornamental notes (0.3%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: B3–A6 (34 st) | Left: A1–A5 (48 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
39 st (3Oct+m3) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Moderate dynamics (ff avg) - clear expression required
Avg velocity 89/127  ·  Spread 35  ·  Range 80–115
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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
LowestB3
HighestA6
Span34 st (2Oct+m7)
Notes399
Widest leap24 st  C#4→C#6
🤚 Left Hand
LowestA1
HighestA5
Span48 st (4 Oct)
Notes214
Widest leap39 st  A5→F#2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.4 notes  ·  67 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.6 notes  ·  18 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🤚 LH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
58%
Repeated
38 of 65 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 25–26
Hardest
📍 Measures 57–58
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 59–60
3rd hardest