Waltz of Chihiro Piano (Intermediate), Tutorial/PDF

🎭 Emotional Character

Written in a busy, richly detailed texture, this piece feels majestic and expansive, broad-shouldered with dignified grandeur, walking at a natural human pace and balanced and warm in its delivery, steady in its expressive intensity from start to finish.

Major Moderate tempo Gentle dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody

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👤 Suggested For

📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate Students ✋ Average Hand Size 👨‍🏫 Teaching Repertoire

⏰ 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

30 / 100

BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

610

Total Notes

32%

Interleaved

3.47

Avg N/Beat

0

Ornaments

Score Breakdown

🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25

32% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving

⏱ Note Density per Beat 5/30

Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 3.47) - comfortable density

✨ Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20

0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation

📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 6/15

Right: B3–G6 (32 st) | Left: A1–F#4 (33 st)

↕ Largest Interval Leap 10/10

26 st (2Oct+M2) - extreme leaps

🎚 Dynamics

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Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required

Avg velocity 62/127 · Spread 31 · Range 49–80

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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

Sheet music preview - Waltz of Chihiro Piano

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🖐 Right Hand

Lowest	B3
Highest	G6
Span	32 st (2Oct+m6)
Notes	276
Widest leap	20 st G5→B3

🤚 Left Hand

Lowest	A1
Highest	F#4
Span	33 st (2Oct+M6)
Notes	334
Widest leap	26 st E4→D2

🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density

Right Hand

Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)

UnisonOctave2 Oct

Avg chord: 2.2 notes · 39 chords

Left Hand

Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)

UnisonOctave2 Oct

Avg chord: 2.9 notes · 28 chords

↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing

Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing. A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.

🖐 RH: 1 runs · longest 8 notes

🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes

🔁 Repeating Phrases

4%

Repeated

Only 2 of 45 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.

Repeated bar Unique bar

🎯 Suggested Practice Passages

The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.

📍 Measures 15–16

Hardest

📍 Measures 17–18

2nd hardest

📍 Measures 19–20

3rd hardest

🎹 Waltz of Chihiro Piano