🎹 Piano Concerto No.2 Op.18 - Rachmaninov
Serguei Rachmaninoff · Expert ·
8,949 notes ·
Tempo 136 BPM ·
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Update 25/12/2025
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🎭 Emotional Character
Melancholic and still, like rain on a quiet window — fluid and unforced, speaking clearly with nothing held back, with wide dramatic swings in volume.
Minor
Flowing tempo
Strong dynamics
Busy texture
Wide-ranging melody
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
29
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6h per week
186h total est.
3 hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
Score Breakdown
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Hand Interleaving
17/25
44% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
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Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 9 notes/beat (avg 6.12) - dense passages
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
6 ornamental notes (0.1%) - no significant ornamentation
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Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: C1–G7 (79 st) | Left: C1–B5 (59 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
59 st (4Oct+M7) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
5/8
39% black-key notes - moderate accidentals
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Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~4.1 notes active per beat (max 11) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
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Piece Length
5/5
10m 54s - long piece: stamina & memorisation required
🎚 Dynamics
ff
Wide dynamic range (ff avg) - strong expressive control needed
Avg velocity 88/127 · Spread 87 · Range 40–127
🎹 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 C1
Highest B5
Span 59 st (4Oct+M7)
Notes 4,422
Widest leap 46 st B4→C#1
🖐 Right Hand
Lowest C1
Highest G7
Span 79 st (6Oct+P5)
Notes 4,527
Widest leap 59 st B5→C1
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 38 semitones (3Oct+M2)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.5 notes · 657 chords
⚠️ 29 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 36 semitones (3 Oct)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.9 notes · 1066 chords
⚠️ 101 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🤚 LH: 1 runs · longest 5 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
Only 24 of 375 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 240–241
Hardest
📍 Measures 242–243
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 253–254
3rd hardest