🎹 Take Five Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Tender yet sorrowful, like a goodbye said too softly — rushing through each idea, steady and unwavering in tone.
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👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎼 Scale Technique Focus
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
37
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
234htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
67
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
4,697
Total Notes
22%
Interleaved
5.79
Avg N/Beat
12
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
22% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 9 notes/beat (avg 5.79) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
12 ornamental notes (0.3%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: F#3–F#5 (24 st) | Left: F1–G4 (38 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
34 st (2Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
8/8
82% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~4.2 notes active per beat (max 8) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
4m 40s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Moderate dynamics (mf avg) - clear expression required
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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 | F1 |
| Highest | G4 |
| Span | 38 st (3Oct+M2) |
| Notes | 4,026 |
| Widest leap | 34 st F1→D#4 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#3 |
| Highest | F#5 |
| Span | 24 st (2 Oct) |
| Notes | 671 |
| Widest leap | 12 st D#4→D#5 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 35 semitones (2Oct+M7)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 3.6 notes · 1020 chords
⚠️ 579 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 0 semitones (Unison)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 1 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 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
36%
Repeated
73 of 203 bars contain repeated phrases — a good portion of the piece recycles earlier material, reducing the unique learning load.
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 52–53
Hardest
📍 Measures 66–67
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 71–72
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Take Five Piano on piano?
Take Five Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 67/100.
It was composed by Composed By The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 4m 40s. It contains 4,697 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Take Five Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Take Five Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
37 weeks
(~234 total practice hours) for a expert level student.
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for Take Five Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Take Five 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 Take Five Piano?
Take Five Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 67/100).
This is expert-level repertoire. Strong sight-reading, high note density stamina, and polished expressive technique are essential.
What is the mood or feel of Take Five Piano?
Tender yet sorrowful, like a goodbye said too softly — rushing through each idea, steady and unwavering in tone. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 174 BPM.
