🎹 Goodbye Marylou Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Tranquil and unhurried, breathing country air, settled and full in its voice — stepping carefully without any rush, holding its emotional level to the end.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
11
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
67htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
61
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,666
Total Notes
44%
Interleaved
4.94
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
44% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 4.94) - moderately busy
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: E4–D6 (22 st) | Left: D1–E4 (38 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
34 st (2Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
2/8
17% black-key notes - some accidentals
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~4.6 notes active per beat (max 7) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
4m 34s - 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 | D1 |
| Highest | E4 |
| Span | 38 st (3Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 1,364 |
| Widest leap | 34 st C4→D1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | E4 |
| Highest | D6 |
| Span | 22 st (1Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 302 |
| Widest leap | 17 st A#5→F4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 34 semitones (2Oct+m7)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.6 notes · 314 chords
⚠️ 165 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes · 0 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
69%
Repeated
59 of 86 bars share repeated material — over half the piece repeats, meaning you only need to truly master 27 unique bars.
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 50–51
Hardest
📍 Measures 69–70
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 73–74
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Goodbye Marylou Piano on piano?
Goodbye Marylou Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 61/100.
It was composed by Paroles & Musique De Michel POLNAREFF. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 4m 34s. It contains 1,666 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Goodbye Marylou Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Goodbye Marylou Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
11 weeks
(~67 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 Goodbye Marylou Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Goodbye Marylou 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 Goodbye Marylou Piano?
Goodbye Marylou Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 61/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of Goodbye Marylou Piano?
Tranquil and unhurried, breathing country air, settled and full in its voice — stepping carefully without any rush, holding its emotional level to the end. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 60 BPM.
