🎹 The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Pensive and tender, carrying a quiet inner ache, swinging between silence and full force, confident without pressing and full of motion in every corner.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
✋ Average Hand Size
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
24
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
156htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
72
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
2,161
Total Notes
22%
Interleaved
5.76
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
22% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 5.76) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: D3–D#7 (49 st) | Left: A#0–G4 (45 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
33 st (2Oct+M6) - extreme leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
8/8
42% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~3.7 notes active per beat (max 7) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
4m 41s - 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 | A#0 |
| Highest | G4 |
| Span | 45 st (3Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 546 |
| Widest leap | 33 st G3→A#0 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | D3 |
| Highest | D#7 |
| Span | 49 st (4Oct+m2) |
| Notes | 1,615 |
| Widest leap | 27 st D#6→C4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.5 notes · 38 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.6 notes · 588 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🤚 LH: 1 runs · longest 5 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
43%
Repeated
41 of 96 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 75–76
Hardest
📍 Measures 83–84
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 90–91
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano on piano?
The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 72/100.
It was composed by Joe Hisaishi. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 4m 41s. It contains 2,161 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
24 weeks
(~156 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 The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) 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 The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano?
The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 72/100).
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 The Wind Forest (from My Neighbour Totoro) Piano?
Pensive and tender, carrying a quiet inner ache, swinging between silence and full force, confident without pressing and full of motion in every corner. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 80 BPM.
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