🎹 One Summer's Day Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Tender and regretful, loving what cannot be held and unhurried and deliberate — warm and easy in its delivery, full of motion in every corner.
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🖐 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
59
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,010
Total Notes
24%
Interleaved
4.39
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
9/25
24% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 4.39) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: F3–E6 (35 st) | Left: C2–E5 (40 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
31 st (2Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
0/8
12% black-key notes - mostly white keys, easy to read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~4 notes active per beat (max 7) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
3/5
3m 33s - 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 | C2 |
| Highest | E5 |
| Span | 40 st (3Oct+M3) |
| Notes | 686 |
| Widest leap | 31 st G4→C2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F3 |
| Highest | E6 |
| Span | 35 st (2Oct+M7) |
| Notes | 324 |
| Widest leap | 27 st C6→A3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 27 semitones (2Oct+m3)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes · 173 chords
⚠️ 39 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.5 notes · 83 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
0%
Repeated
Only 0 of 70 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 23–24
Hardest
📍 Measures 56–57
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 64–65
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is One Summer's Day Piano on piano?
One Summer's Day Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 59/100.
It was composed by Joe Hisaishi. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 3m 33s. It contains 1,010 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn One Summer's Day Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning One Summer's Day 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 One Summer's Day Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for One Summer's Day Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 5 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
Is there a video tutorial for One Summer's Day Piano piano?
Yes — a piano video tutorial for One Summer's Day Piano is embedded on this page.
You can watch it here or follow the 'Play on YouTube' link.
The tutorial covers the full arrangement at 78 BPM.
What piano level is required to play One Summer's Day Piano?
One Summer's Day Piano is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 59/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of One Summer's Day Piano?
Tender and regretful, loving what cannot be held and unhurried and deliberate — warm and easy in its delivery, full of motion in every corner. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 78 BPM.
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