🎹 Little Dark Age Piano

Orininal Song By MGMT· Intermediate· 1,820 notes· Tempo 98 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
This is a piece grave and majestic, moving with the slow dignity of deep mourning — balanced between urgency and calm and with a full but measured voice, layered with activity that rewards close listening, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.
Minor Moderate tempo Moderate dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
4
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
22htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
33 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

1,820
Total Notes
25%
Interleaved
4.18
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
25% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 4.18) - moderately busy
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15
Right: F#3–C#6 (31 st) | Left: B1–C#4 (26 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
19 st (1Oct+P5) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 80/127  ·  Spread 0  ·  Range 80–80
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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
HighestC#6
Span31 st (2Oct+P5)
Notes828
Widest leap19 st  F#3→C#5
🤚 Left Hand
LowestB1
HighestC#4
Span26 st (2Oct+M2)
Notes992
Widest leap15 st  F#3→D#2
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  48 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.8 notes  ·  293 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
64%
Repeated
78 of 121 bars share repeated material — over half the piece repeats, meaning you only need to truly master 43 unique bars.
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 30–31
Hardest
📍 Measures 32–33
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 70–71
3rd hardest