🎹 Autumn Leaves Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Lonely and spacious, where silence fills the gaps, consistent and focused throughout, confident without pressing and full of motion in every corner.
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
✋ Average Hand Size
🎼 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
1,044
Total Notes
36%
Interleaved
3.78
Avg N/Beat
6
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - 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 | G1 |
| Highest | G7 |
| Span | 72 st (6 Oct) |
| Notes | 470 |
| Widest leap | 55 st G7→C3 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#3 |
| Highest | B6 |
| Span | 41 st (3Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 574 |
| Widest leap | 24 st G6→G4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 11 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.5 notes · 127 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 9 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
18%
Repeated
Only 13 of 71 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 19–20
Hardest
📍 Measures 27–28
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 53–54
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Autumn Leaves Piano on piano?
Autumn Leaves Piano is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 56/100.
It was composed by Joseph Kosma. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 2m 41s. It contains 1,044 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Autumn Leaves Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Autumn Leaves 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 Autumn Leaves Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Autumn Leaves 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 Autumn Leaves Piano piano?
Yes — a piano video tutorial for Autumn Leaves 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 105 BPM.
What piano level is required to play Autumn Leaves Piano?
Autumn Leaves 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 Autumn Leaves Piano?
Lonely and spacious, where silence fills the gaps, consistent and focused throughout, confident without pressing and full of motion in every corner. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 105 BPM.
