🎹 Summertime Sadness Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Tense and restless, with an edge that refuses to settle — fluid and unforced, present and measured throughout, steady and unwavering in tone.
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👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
✋ Average Hand Size
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
29
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
186htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
69
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
1,850
Total Notes
55%
Interleaved
3.69
Avg N/Beat
22
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
55% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 3.69) - moderately busy
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
22 ornamental notes (1.2%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: F#1–C#7 (67 st) | Left: F#1–E5 (46 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
60 st (5 Oct) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
8/8
57% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
4/7
~3.4 notes active per beat (max 7) - melody + accompaniment with inner voices
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
4m 32s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 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 | F#1 |
| Highest | E5 |
| Span | 46 st (3Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 791 |
| Widest leap | 31 st C#4→F#1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#1 |
| Highest | C#7 |
| Span | 67 st (5Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 1,059 |
| Widest leap | 60 st A1→A6 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes · 126 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.5 notes · 211 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
11%
Repeated
Only 15 of 136 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 54–55
Hardest
📍 Measures 68–69
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 87–88
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Summertime Sadness Piano on piano?
Summertime Sadness Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 69/100.
It was composed by Lana Del Rey. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 4m 32s. It contains 1,850 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Summertime Sadness Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Summertime Sadness Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
29 weeks
(~186 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 Summertime Sadness Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Summertime Sadness Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 6 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Summertime Sadness Piano?
Summertime Sadness Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 69/100).
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 Summertime Sadness Piano?
Tense and restless, with an edge that refuses to settle — fluid and unforced, present and measured throughout, steady and unwavering in tone. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 120 BPM.
