🎹 Nocturne Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Desolate and open, echoing across a vast emptiness, steady and unwavering in tone — walking at a natural human pace and richly layered with interweaving detail.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
✋ Average Hand Size
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
3
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
18htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
55
/ 100
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
543
Total Notes
40%
Interleaved
3.33
Avg N/Beat
26
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎚 Dynamics
f
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 | G1 |
| Highest | C5 |
| Span | 41 st (3Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 317 |
| Widest leap | 31 st F4→A#1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | C4 |
| Highest | D7 |
| Span | 38 st (3Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 226 |
| Widest leap | 22 st F6→G4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 7 semitones (P5)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 13 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes · 22 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 6 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
9%
Repeated
Only 4 of 44 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 7–8
Hardest
📍 Measures 15–16
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 31–32
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Nocturne Piano on piano?
Nocturne Piano is rated
Intermediate
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 55/100.
It was composed by Bill Kiley And Justin Stander. Players should be comfortable with moderate hand independence, chord playing, and consistent rhythm. The piece runs approximately 2m 06s. It contains 543 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Nocturne Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Nocturne Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
3 weeks
(~18 total practice hours) for a intermediate level student.
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Nocturne Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Nocturne Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 3 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Nocturne Piano?
Nocturne Piano is suited for
Intermediate
level pianists (difficulty score 55/100).
You'll need to be comfortable with both hands independently, chord patterns, and steady rhythm before tackling this piece.
What is the mood or feel of Nocturne Piano?
Desolate and open, echoing across a vast emptiness, steady and unwavering in tone — walking at a natural human pace and richly layered with interweaving detail. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 83 BPM.
