🎹 WALTZ NO. 2 Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Pensive and tender, carrying a quiet inner ache and driven with restless forward energy — confident without pressing, full of motion in every corner.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
17
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
97htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
56
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
2,673
Total Notes
19%
Interleaved
4.1
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎚 Dynamics
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Wide dynamic range (f avg) - strong expressive control needed
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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
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | G1 |
| Highest | F6 |
| Span | 58 st (4Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 2,139 |
| Widest leap | 44 st D#6→G2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | G3 |
| Highest | F6 |
| Span | 34 st (2Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 534 |
| Widest leap | 17 st C5→G3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 48 semitones (4 Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.4 notes · 598 chords
⚠️ 265 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 24 semitones (2 Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.5 notes · 2 chords
⚠️ 2 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 10 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
13%
Repeated
Only 21 of 164 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 80–81
Hardest
📍 Measures 99–100
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 163–164
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is WALTZ NO. 2 Piano on piano?
WALTZ NO. 2 Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 56/100.
It was composed by Dimitri Shostakovich. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 4m 33s. It contains 2,673 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn WALTZ NO. 2 Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning WALTZ NO. 2 Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
17 weeks
(~97 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 WALTZ NO. 2 Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for WALTZ NO. 2 Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 9 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play WALTZ NO. 2 Piano?
WALTZ NO. 2 Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 56/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of WALTZ NO. 2 Piano?
Pensive and tender, carrying a quiet inner ache and driven with restless forward energy — confident without pressing, full of motion in every corner. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 144 BPM.
