🎹 Sucker Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Sorrowful yet upright, grief worn without collapse, weighty and direct, with real conviction — propelled and urgent, barely pausing, expressively ranging from soft to loud.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
✋ Average Hand Size
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
17
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
97htotal 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
1,551
Total Notes
27%
Interleaved
3.05
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎚 Dynamics
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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 | A0 |
| Highest | B3 |
| Span | 38 st (3Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 822 |
| Widest leap | 27 st G#1→B3 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | E3 |
| Highest | D#6 |
| Span | 35 st (2Oct+M7) |
| Notes | 729 |
| Widest leap | 31 st D#6→G#3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 286 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes · 199 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 1 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
26%
Repeated
Only 35 of 133 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 42–43
Hardest
📍 Measures 46–47
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 114–115
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Sucker Piano on piano?
Sucker Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 56/100.
It was composed by Marcus King. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 3m 35s. It contains 1,551 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Sucker Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Sucker Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
17 weeks
(~97 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 Sucker Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Sucker Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 4 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Sucker Piano?
Sucker 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 Sucker Piano?
Sorrowful yet upright, grief worn without collapse, weighty and direct, with real conviction — propelled and urgent, barely pausing, expressively ranging from soft to loud. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 148 BPM.