🎹 Cape Light Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Mysterious and haunting, drifting without a horizon, steady and unwavering in tone — fluid and unforced and smooth and seamless, one long breath.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🖐 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
56
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,727
Total Notes
53%
Interleaved
2.75
Avg N/Beat
22
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
53% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 2.75) - comfortable density
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
22 ornamental notes (1.3%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: D3–E7 (50 st) | Left: E1–E4 (36 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
28 st (2Oct+M3) - extreme leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
2/8
15% black-key notes - some accidentals
♬
Polyphony / Voices
2/7
~2.5 notes active per beat (max 8) - occasional two-voice texture
⏳
Piece Length
5/5
6m 20s - long piece: stamina & memorisation required
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Uniform mf - 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 | E1 |
| Highest | E4 |
| Span | 36 st (3 Oct) |
| Notes | 538 |
| Widest leap | 24 st A3→A1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | D3 |
| Highest | E7 |
| Span | 50 st (4Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 1,189 |
| Widest leap | 28 st B6→G4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 16 semitones (1Oct+M3)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 42 chords
⚠️ 2 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 11 semitones (M7)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 208 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 5 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 5 runs · longest 13 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
22%
Repeated
Only 40 of 181 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 62–63
Hardest
📍 Measures 144–145
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 148–149
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Cape Light Piano on piano?
Cape Light Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 56/100.
It was composed by Izumi Hirotaka. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 6m 20s. It contains 1,727 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Cape Light Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Cape Light 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 Cape Light Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Cape Light Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 2 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play Cape Light Piano?
Cape Light Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 56/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of Cape Light Piano?
Mysterious and haunting, drifting without a horizon, steady and unwavering in tone — fluid and unforced and smooth and seamless, one long breath. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 120 BPM.
