🎹 Scarborough Fair Violin
🎭 Emotional Character
Heavy and intense, moving through unlit spaces, woven into a continuous, unbroken line, expressively ranging from soft to loud.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🌱 Complete Beginners
📖 Early Learners
🖐 Large Hands
👨🏫 Teaching Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
1
weeks to performance-ready
A comfortable piece to learn in a few sessions — great for building confidence.
3hper week
9htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~3h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Beginner
30
/ 100
Accessible - both hands stay in comfortable positions
688
Total Notes
14%
Interleaved
2.68
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎚 Dynamics
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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 | C2 |
| Highest | A4 |
| Span | 33 st (2Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 531 |
| Widest leap | 33 st A4→C2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | C4 |
| Highest | D5 |
| Span | 14 st (1Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 157 |
| Widest leap | 7 st D4→A4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 31 semitones (2Oct+P5)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.4 notes · 197 chords
⚠️ 81 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 4 semitones (M3)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 4 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
49%
Repeated
38 of 78 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 7–8
Hardest
📍 Measures 9–10
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 45–46
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Scarborough Fair Violin on piano?
Scarborough Fair Violin is rated
Beginner
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 30/100.
It was composed by Undefined. This piece is suitable for beginners who have mastered basic hand coordination and simple scales. The piece runs approximately 2m 34s. It contains 688 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Scarborough Fair Violin?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Scarborough Fair Violin to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
1 weeks
(~9 total practice hours) for a beginner level student.
A comfortable piece to learn in a few sessions — great for building confidence.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Scarborough Fair Violin?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Scarborough Fair Violin directly on this page.
The sheet is 2 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Scarborough Fair Violin?
Scarborough Fair Violin is suited for
Beginner
level pianists (difficulty score 30/100).
It is a great choice for students who have mastered basic hand coordination and simple pieces.
What is the mood or feel of Scarborough Fair Violin?
Heavy and intense, moving through unlit spaces, woven into a continuous, unbroken line, expressively ranging from soft to loud. It belongs to the Violin
genre.
The piece is played at 120 BPM.
