🎹 Take Five Piano

Composed By The Dave Brubeck Quartet· Advanced· 4,697 notes· Tempo 174 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This is a piece tender yet sorrowful, like a farewell that lingers long after the door closes — racing through ideas with barely a pause and balanced and warm in its delivery, in a busy, richly detailed texture, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.
Minor Fast tempo Gentle dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students 🏆 Advanced Students 🖐 Large Hands 🎼 Scale Technique Focus
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
17
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
97htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
49 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Challenging - needs solid technique and independence

4,697
Total Notes
22%
Interleaved
5.79
Avg N/Beat
12
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
22% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 20/30
Busiest beats: 9 notes/beat (avg 5.79) - dense passages
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
12 ornamental notes (0.3%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: F#3–F#5 (24 st) | Left: F1–G4 (38 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
34 st (2Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required
Avg velocity 68/127  ·  Spread 32  ·  Range 64–96
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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
LowestF#3
HighestF#5
Span24 st (2 Oct)
Notes671
Widest leap12 st  D#4→D#5
🤚 Left Hand
LowestF1
HighestG4
Span38 st (3Oct+M2)
Notes4,026
Widest leap34 st  F1→D#4
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  1 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 35 semitones (2Oct+M7)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.6 notes  ·  1020 chords
⚠️ 579 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 11 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
36%
Repeated
73 of 203 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 66–67
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 71–72
3rd hardest