🎹 A Town with an Ocean View (Violin & Piano)

Joe Hisaishi· Advanced· 902 notes· Tempo 82 BPM· 0 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 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
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👤 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.
5hper week
57htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
61 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Challenging - needs solid technique and independence

902
Total Notes
34%
Interleaved
4.67
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 9/25
34% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
Note Density per Beat 20/30
Busiest beats: 8 notes/beat (avg 4.67) - dense passages
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 15/15
Right: G3–B5 (28 st) | Left: G1–B5 (52 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
46 st (3Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
# Chromatic Complexity 2/8
16% black-key notes - some accidentals
Polyphony / Voices 4/7
~3.1 notes active per beat (max 9) - melody + accompaniment with inner voices
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
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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
LowestG1
HighestB5
Span52 st (4Oct+M3)
Notes626
Widest leap46 st  B1→A5
🖐 Right Hand
LowestG3
HighestB5
Span28 st (2Oct+M3)
Notes276
Widest leap17 st  B3→E5
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Max chord span: 46 semitones (3Oct+m7)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.7 notes  ·  189 chords
⚠️ 79 stretch chords (>octave)
Max chord span: 5 semitones (P4)
0 stOctave2 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
12%
Repeated
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 3–4
Hardest
📍 Measures 44–45
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 49–50
3rd hardest