🎹 Grandma Piano

Koji Kondo· Intermediate· 217 notes· Tempo 94 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Unfolding grounded and measured, this piece is murky and intense, like depths that absorb light without returning it — leaving room for the silence to speak, maintaining a consistent and focused emotional level throughout.
Minor Moderate tempo Gentle dynamics Sparse texture Leaping melody
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size 🎼 Scale Technique Focus
⏰ 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
31 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

217
Total Notes
57%
Interleaved
1.75
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 17/25
57% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
Note Density per Beat 2/30
Busiest beats: 3 notes/beat (avg 1.75) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: A3–G6 (34 st) | Left: C2–G4 (31 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
19 st (1Oct+P5) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Uniform mf - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 64/127  ·  Spread 0  ·  Range 64–64
pppmpmfffffff
🎹 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
HighestG6
Span34 st (2Oct+m7)
Notes138
Widest leap15 st  F5→D4
🤚 Left Hand
LowestC2
HighestG4
Span31 st (2Oct+P5)
Notes79
Widest leap19 st  G3→C2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 8 semitones (m6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  2 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes  ·  13 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 5 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🤚 LH: 5 runs · longest 6 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
8%
Repeated
Only 3 of 37 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
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 13–14
Hardest
📍 Measures 15–16
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 34–35
3rd hardest