🎹 Águas de Março Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Clear and noble, poised with understated elegance — rushing through each idea, steady and unwavering in tone.
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👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
13
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
77htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
64
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,573
Total Notes
31%
Interleaved
3.26
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
31% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
12/30
Busiest beats: 7 notes/beat (avg 3.26) - moderately busy
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: B1–A#6 (59 st) | Left: A#1–A#3 (24 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
42 st (3Oct+TT) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
8/8
51% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~6.4 notes active per beat (max 9) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
3m 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 | A#1 |
| Highest | A#3 |
| Span | 24 st (2 Oct) |
| Notes | 301 |
| Widest leap | 13 st B2→A#1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | B1 |
| Highest | A#6 |
| Span | 59 st (4Oct+M7) |
| Notes | 1,272 |
| Widest leap | 42 st G#5→D2 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 0 notes · 0 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 38 semitones (3Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 5.7 notes · 140 chords
⚠️ 132 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 3 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 1 runs · longest 6 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
10%
Repeated
Only 12 of 125 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 20–21
Hardest
📍 Measures 62–63
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 108–109
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Águas de Março Piano on piano?
Águas de Março Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 64/100.
It was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 3m 34s. It contains 1,573 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Águas de Março Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Águas de Março Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
13 weeks
(~77 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 Águas de Março Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Águas de Março 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 Águas de Março Piano?
Águas de Março Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 64/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of Águas de Março Piano?
Clear and noble, poised with understated elegance — rushing through each idea, steady and unwavering in tone. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 140 BPM.
