🎹 Schindler's List Piano

John Williams· Intermediate· 1,380 notes· Tempo 60 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Written in a busy, richly detailed texture, this piece feels bittersweet and nostalgic, reaching for something beautiful just out of grasp, stepping carefully through each moment and confident and settled in its volume, traversing a wide emotional arc through stark dynamic contrasts.
Minor Slow tempo Moderate dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 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
39 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

1,380
Total Notes
25%
Interleaved
3.44
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
25% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 3.44) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 15/15
Right: D#3–A7 (54 st) | Left: A0–E6 (67 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
43 st (3Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Wide dynamic range (mf avg) - strong expressive control needed
Avg velocity 70/127  ·  Spread 78  ·  Range 49–127
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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
LowestD#3
HighestA7
Span54 st (4Oct+TT)
Notes651
Widest leap40 st  E7→C4
🤚 Left Hand
LowestA0
HighestE6
Span67 st (5Oct+P5)
Notes729
Widest leap43 st  E4→A0
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.4 notes  ·  134 chords
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
UnisonOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.4 notes  ·  28 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 1 runs · longest 20 notes
🤚 LH: 1 runs · longest 19 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
4%
Repeated
Only 4 of 104 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 55–56
Hardest
📍 Measures 57–58
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 62–63
3rd hardest