🎹 Sweet Sorrow Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Tender and regretful, loving what cannot be held — connected from first note to last, confident without pressing, consistent and focused throughout.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
13
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
77htotal 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
1,829
Total Notes
41%
Interleaved
2.8
Avg N/Beat
5
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
🎚 Dynamics
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Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
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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 | E1 |
| Highest | F4 |
| Span | 37 st (3Oct+m2) |
| Notes | 746 |
| Widest leap | 24 st E3→E1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | C2 |
| Highest | G#6 |
| Span | 56 st (4Oct+m6) |
| Notes | 1,083 |
| Widest leap | 29 st G6→D4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 14 semitones (1Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 62 chords
⚠️ 1 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes · 213 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 5 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 5 runs · longest 6 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
21%
Repeated
Only 36 of 174 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 98–99
Hardest
📍 Measures 107–108
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 153–154
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Sweet Sorrow Piano on piano?
Sweet Sorrow Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 56/100.
It was composed by Izumi Hirotaka. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 5m 51s. It contains 1,829 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Sweet Sorrow Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Sweet Sorrow Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
13 weeks
(~77 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 Sweet Sorrow Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Sweet Sorrow 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 Sweet Sorrow Piano?
Sweet Sorrow 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 Sweet Sorrow Piano?
Tender and regretful, loving what cannot be held — connected from first note to last, confident without pressing, consistent and focused throughout. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 120 BPM.
