🎹 The Other Side of the Sea Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Bleak and unhurried, the sound of winter at dusk, breathed out with agonizing patience — packed with simultaneous motion.
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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
3,298
Total Notes
2%
Interleaved
7.83
Avg N/Beat
36
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
1/25
2% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 11 notes/beat (avg 7.83) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
36 ornamental notes (1.1%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: D6–A#6 (8 st) | Left: C1–D7 (74 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
70 st (5Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
5/8
35% black-key notes - moderate accidentals
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~3.6 notes active per beat (max 6) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
4m 54s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 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 | C1 |
| Highest | D7 |
| Span | 74 st (6Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 3,114 |
| Widest leap | 70 st C7→D1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | D6 |
| Highest | A#6 |
| Span | 8 st (m6) |
| Notes | 184 |
| Widest leap | 8 st D6→A#6 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 72 semitones (6 Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.8 notes · 882 chords
⚠️ 549 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 8 semitones (m6)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 64 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 0 runs · longest 1 notes
🤚 LH: 1 runs · longest 5 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
11%
Repeated
Only 12 of 106 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 85–86
Hardest
📍 Measures 88–89
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 90–91
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is The Other Side of the Sea Piano on piano?
The Other Side of the Sea Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 61/100.
It was composed by KOHTA YAMAMOTO. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 4m 54s. It contains 3,298 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn The Other Side of the Sea Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning The Other Side of the Sea 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 The Other Side of the Sea Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for The Other Side of the Sea Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 7 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play The Other Side of the Sea Piano?
The Other Side of the Sea 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 The Other Side of the Sea Piano?
Bleak and unhurried, the sound of winter at dusk, breathed out with agonizing patience — packed with simultaneous motion. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 44 BPM.
