🎹 America the Beautiful Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Volatile and expressive, cycling through its feelings and moving as if time has thickened — full-bodied and assertive, full of motion in every corner.
📥 Downloads
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
✋ Average Hand Size
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
24
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
156htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
72
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
1,162
Total Notes
51%
Interleaved
4.78
Avg N/Beat
0
Ornaments
🎚 Dynamics
ff
Wide dynamic range (ff avg) - strong expressive control needed
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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 | C#1 |
| Highest | B4 |
| Span | 46 st (3Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 656 |
| Widest leap | 38 st D#4→C#1 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F3 |
| Highest | D#6 |
| Span | 34 st (2Oct+m7) |
| Notes | 506 |
| Widest leap | 24 st F5→F3 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.8 notes · 22 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.6 notes · 120 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 3 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 3 runs · longest 7 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 4 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
3%
Repeated
Only 2 of 62 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 38–39
Hardest
📍 Measures 49–50
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 55–56
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is America the Beautiful Piano on piano?
America the Beautiful Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 72/100.
It was composed by Samuel Augustus Ward. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 4m 12s. It contains 1,162 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn America the Beautiful Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning America the Beautiful Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
24 weeks
(~156 total practice hours) for a expert level student.
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for America the Beautiful Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for America the Beautiful Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 4 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play America the Beautiful Piano?
America the Beautiful Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 72/100).
This is expert-level repertoire. Strong sight-reading, high note density stamina, and polished expressive technique are essential.
What is the mood or feel of America the Beautiful Piano?
Volatile and expressive, cycling through its feelings and moving as if time has thickened — full-bodied and assertive, full of motion in every corner. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 40 BPM.
