🎹 Ascension to Heaven Piano

Yusuke Ishiwata· Expert· 1,755 notes· Tempo 100 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Quietly dreadful, like a corridor where something is always just out of sight, this piece moves balanced between urgency and calm packed with overlapping ideas and simultaneous motion, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.
Minor Moderate tempo Moderate dynamics Dense texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎹 Concert Pianists ✋ Average Hand Size 🎼 Scale Technique Focus 🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
24
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
156htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
87 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Professional - complex layering and high speed required

1,755
Total Notes
55%
Interleaved
8.4
Avg N/Beat
460
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 17/25
55% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
Note Density per Beat 30/30
Busiest beats: 13 notes/beat (avg 8.4) - extremely dense
Ornaments & Grace Notes 20/20
460 ornamental notes (26.2%) - heavy ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: E3–D7 (46 st) | Left: B0–B4 (48 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
40 st (3Oct+M3) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required
Avg velocity 69/127  ·  Spread 47  ·  Range 49–96
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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
LowestE3
HighestD7
Span46 st (3Oct+m7)
Notes1,025
Widest leap24 st  D6→D4
🤚 Left Hand
LowestB0
HighestB4
Span48 st (4 Oct)
Notes730
Widest leap40 st  B4→G1
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.3 notes  ·  135 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes  ·  53 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 8 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. This piece has extensive running passages — smooth thumb-under technique is essential.
🖐 RH: 8 runs · longest 13 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
12%
Repeated
Only 8 of 65 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 44–45
Hardest
📍 Measures 52–53
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 56–57
3rd hardest