🎹 Love in the Dark Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Aching with nostalgia, joy and loss in the same breath, balanced, neither urgent nor idle — active and densely woven throughout.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 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
2,317
Total Notes
44%
Interleaved
4.94
Avg N/Beat
14
Ornaments
🎚 Dynamics
ff
Wide dynamic range (ff 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 | C1 |
| Highest | A5 |
| Span | 57 st (4Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 1,777 |
| Widest leap | 55 st C1→G5 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | G3 |
| Highest | E6 |
| Span | 33 st (2Oct+M6) |
| Notes | 540 |
| Widest leap | 15 st G5→E4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 55 semitones (4Oct+P5)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.5 notes · 488 chords
⚠️ 228 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 97 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 8 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
5%
Repeated
Only 6 of 128 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 92–93
Hardest
📍 Measures 94–95
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 97–98
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Love in the Dark Piano on piano?
Love in the Dark Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 72/100.
It was composed by Adele. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 4m 40s. It contains 2,317 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Love in the Dark Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Love in the Dark 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 Love in the Dark Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Love in the Dark Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 1 page long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Love in the Dark Piano?
Love in the Dark 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 Love in the Dark Piano?
Aching with nostalgia, joy and loss in the same breath, balanced, neither urgent nor idle — active and densely woven throughout. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 89 BPM.
