🎹 Shadow of the Moon Piano
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
✋ Average Hand Size
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
11
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
67htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
58
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,400
Total Notes
44%
Interleaved
3.73
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎭 Emotional Character
Pensive and tender, carrying a quiet inner ache — full of motion in every corner, warm and easy in its delivery, swinging between silence and full force.
🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand)
Lower dot = LH (Left Hand)
White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Wide dynamic range (mf avg) - strong expressive control needed
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📐 Note Range per Hand · Sheet Preview
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | G1 |
| Highest | C4 |
| Span | 29 st (2Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 704 |
| Widest leap | 24 st C4→C2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | D#3 |
| Highest | D7 |
| Span | 47 st (3Oct+M7) |
| Notes | 696 |
| Widest leap | 31 st D7→G4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 31 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 170 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 3 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 3 runs · longest 14 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
36%
Repeated
35 of 98 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 85–86
Hardest
📍 Measures 88–89
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 93–94
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Shadow of the Moon Piano on piano?
Shadow of the Moon Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 58/100.
It was composed by Masao Aichi. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 4m 57s. It contains 1,400 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Shadow of the Moon Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Shadow of the Moon Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
11 weeks
(~67 total practice hours) for a advanced level student.
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Shadow of the Moon Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Shadow of the Moon Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 5 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Shadow of the Moon Piano?
Shadow of the Moon Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 58/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of Shadow of the Moon Piano?
Pensive and tender, carrying a quiet inner ache — full of motion in every corner, warm and easy in its delivery, swinging between silence and full force. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 50 BPM.
