🎹 A Town with an Ocean View (Violin & Piano)
Joe Hisaishi · Advanced ·
902 notes ·
Tempo 82 BPM ·
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Update 25/12/2025
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🎭 Emotional Character
Shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving, balanced, neither urgent nor idle — active and densely woven throughout.
Minor
Moderate tempo
Gentle dynamics
Busy texture
Wide-ranging melody
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
9
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5h per week
57h total est.
3 hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
Score Breakdown
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Hand Interleaving
9/25
34% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
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Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 4.67) - dense passages
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
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Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: G3–B5 (28 st) | Left: G1–B5 (52 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
46 st (3Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
2/8
16% black-key notes - some accidentals
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Polyphony / Voices
4/7
~3.1 notes active per beat (max 9) - melody + accompaniment with inner voices
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Piece Length
1/5
2m 17s - short-medium length
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Wide dynamic range (mf avg) - strong expressive control needed
Avg velocity 61/127 · Spread 64 · Range 32–96
🎹 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 G1
Highest B5
Span 52 st (4Oct+M3)
Notes 626
Widest leap 46 st B1→A5
🖐 Right Hand
Lowest G3
Highest B5
Span 28 st (2Oct+M3)
Notes 276
Widest leap 17 st B3→E5
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 46 semitones (3Oct+m7)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.7 notes · 189 chords
⚠️ 79 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 5 semitones (P4)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 2 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 6 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 2 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
Only 6 of 52 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 44–45
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 49–50
3rd hardest