🎹 A Town with an Ocean View Piano (Advance)

Joe Hisaishi· Expert· 1,157 notes· Tempo 55 BPM· 6,000 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 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
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👤 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.
6hper week
156htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
68 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Professional - complex layering and high speed required

1,157
Total Notes
30%
Interleaved
7.61
Avg N/Beat
499
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
30% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 20/30
Busiest beats: 11 notes/beat (avg 7.61) - dense passages
Ornaments & Grace Notes 20/20
499 ornamental notes (43.1%) - heavy ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: G2–G6 (48 st) | Left: E2–D5 (34 st)
Largest Interval Leap 6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
# Chromatic Complexity 0/8
10% black-key notes - mostly white keys, easy to read
Polyphony / Voices 2/7
~2.5 notes active per beat (max 6) - occasional two-voice texture
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
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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
LowestE2
HighestD5
Span34 st (2Oct+m7)
Notes529
Widest leap19 st  E2→B3
🖐 Right Hand
LowestG2
HighestG6
Span48 st (4 Oct)
Notes628
Widest leap24 st  E4→E6
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Max chord span: 14 semitones (1Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.2 notes  ·  48 chords
⚠️ 3 stretch chords (>octave)
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 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
13%
Repeated
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 24–25
Hardest
📍 Measures 33–34
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 36–37
3rd hardest