🎹 Payphone Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving, settled and full in its voice — moving without effort or hesitation, holding its emotional level to the end.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
29
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
186htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
67
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
2,977
Total Notes
24%
Interleaved
9.54
Avg N/Beat
32
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
24% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
30/30
Busiest beats: 13 notes/beat (avg 9.54) - extremely dense
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
32 ornamental notes (1.1%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: F#4–B5 (17 st) | Left: D2–B5 (45 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
43 st (3Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
0/8
11% black-key notes - mostly white keys, easy to read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~8.9 notes active per beat (max 15) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
1/5
2m 43s - short-medium length
🎚 Dynamics
f
Moderate dynamics (f avg) - clear expression required
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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 | D2 |
| Highest | B5 |
| Span | 45 st (3Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 2,771 |
| Widest leap | 43 st E2→B5 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#4 |
| Highest | B5 |
| Span | 17 st (1Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 206 |
| Widest leap | 8 st B4→G5 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 41 semitones (3Oct+P4)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 5.8 notes · 452 chords
⚠️ 340 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes · 0 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
3%
Repeated
Only 2 of 79 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 18–19
Hardest
📍 Measures 22–23
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 62–63
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Payphone Piano on piano?
Payphone Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 67/100.
It was composed by Undefined. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 2m 43s. It contains 2,977 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Payphone Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Payphone Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
29 weeks
(~186 total practice hours) for a expert level student.
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Payphone Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Payphone Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 21 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Payphone Piano?
Payphone Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 67/100).
This is expert-level repertoire. Strong sight-reading, high note density stamina, and polished expressive technique are essential.
What is the mood or feel of Payphone Piano?
Shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving, settled and full in its voice — moving without effort or hesitation, holding its emotional level to the end. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 120 BPM.
