🎹 WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Mysterious and haunting, drifting without a horizon — each note drawn out like a slow breath, with wide dramatic swings in volume.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
✋ 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
64
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,284
Total Notes
47%
Interleaved
5.2
Avg N/Beat
6
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
47% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 5.2) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
6 ornamental notes (0.5%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: F#3–E6 (34 st) | Left: F#1–C5 (42 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
26 st (2Oct+M2) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
0/8
6% black-key notes - mostly white keys, easy to read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
4/7
~3.2 notes active per beat (max 6) - melody + accompaniment with inner voices
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
4m 28s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 Dynamics
f
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 | F#1 |
| Highest | C5 |
| Span | 42 st (3Oct+TT) |
| Notes | 443 |
| Widest leap | 26 st A4→G2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#3 |
| Highest | E6 |
| Span | 34 st (2Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 841 |
| Widest leap | 24 st D6→D4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 47 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes · 274 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
17%
Repeated
Only 11 of 63 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 45–46
Hardest
📍 Measures 47–48
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 49–50
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano on piano?
WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 64/100.
It was composed by Written By David Gilmour And Roger Waters. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 4m 28s. It contains 1,284 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning WISH YOU WERE HERE 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 WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for WISH YOU WERE HERE 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 WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano?
WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 64/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of WISH YOU WERE HERE Piano?
Mysterious and haunting, drifting without a horizon — each note drawn out like a slow breath, with wide dramatic swings in volume. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 56 BPM.
