🎹 A Town with an Ocean View Piano (Advance)
Joe Hisaishi · Expert ·
1,157 notes ·
Tempo 55 BPM ·
6,000 views ·
Update 25/12/2025
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🎭 Emotional Character
Shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving, breathed out with agonizing patience — packed with simultaneous motion.
Minor
Very slow tempo
Moderate dynamics
Dense texture
Wide-ranging melody
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
24
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6h per week
156h total est.
3 hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
Score Breakdown
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Hand Interleaving
9/25
30% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
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Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 11 notes/beat (avg 7.61) - dense passages
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
20/20
499 ornamental notes (43.1%) - heavy ornamentation
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Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: G2–G6 (48 st) | Left: E2–D5 (34 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
0/8
10% black-key notes - mostly white keys, easy to read
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Polyphony / Voices
2/7
~2.5 notes active per beat (max 6) - occasional two-voice texture
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Piece Length
1/5
2m 48s - short-medium length
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 80/127 · Spread 0 · Range 80–80
🎹 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 E2
Highest D5
Span 34 st (2Oct+m7)
Notes 529
Widest leap 19 st E2→B3
🖐 Right Hand
Lowest G2
Highest G6
Span 48 st (4 Oct)
Notes 628
Widest leap 24 st E4→E6
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 14 semitones (1Oct+M2)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes · 48 chords
⚠️ 3 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes · 103 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 4 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 4 runs · longest 11 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
Only 5 of 39 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 33–34
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 36–37
3rd hardest