🎹 It's Been So Long Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Written layered with activity that rewards close listening, this piece feels subdued and withdrawn, retreating into a private inner world, balanced between urgency and calm and with conviction and weight behind every note, shaped by bold swells and sudden retreats of sound.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
11
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
67htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
45
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,162
Total Notes
50%
Interleaved
4.49
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
50% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 4.49) - moderately busy
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: A#3–D#6 (29 st) | Left: F1–A#4 (41 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
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Wide dynamic range (ff avg) - strong expressive control needed
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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
| Lowest | A#3 |
| Highest | D#6 |
| Span | 29 st (2Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 600 |
| Widest leap | 21 st C#4→A#5 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | F1 |
| Highest | A#4 |
| Span | 41 st (3Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 562 |
| Widest leap | 24 st F2→F4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 92 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes · 146 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 1 runs · longest 6 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
41%
Repeated
28 of 69 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 22–23
Hardest
📍 Measures 26–27
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 54–55
3rd hardest