🎹 The Grey Crow Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Written layered with activity that rewards close listening, this piece feels bleak and expansive, the emotional equivalent of winter fields at dusk, never rushing, never lingering and with a full but measured voice, unwavering in its chosen volume and character.
👤 Suggested For
🎹 Concert Pianists
✋ Average Hand Size
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
29
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
186htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
87
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
1,192
Total Notes
70%
Interleaved
5.96
Avg N/Beat
360
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
25/25
70% of notes interleave - very dense layering, both hands constantly active
⏱
Note Density per Beat
30/30
Busiest beats: 15 notes/beat (avg 5.96) - extremely dense
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
20/20
360 ornamental notes (30.2%) - heavy ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
6/15
Right: G3–G5 (24 st) | Left: C2–G4 (31 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required
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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 | G3 |
| Highest | G5 |
| Span | 24 st (2 Oct) |
| Notes | 648 |
| Widest leap | 17 st D4→G5 |
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | C2 |
| Highest | G4 |
| Span | 31 st (2Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 544 |
| Widest leap | 24 st C4→C2 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 120 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 168 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 6 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
51%
Repeated
27 of 53 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 19–20
Hardest
📍 Measures 44–45
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 49–50
3rd hardest