🎹 Ballade pour Adeline Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Enigmatic and veiled, full of felt but unseen things — full of motion in every corner, warm and easy in its delivery, swinging between silence and full force.
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
✋ Average Hand Size
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
20
weeks to performance-ready
Concert-level material. Mastery takes dedicated long-term commitment.
6hper week
132htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~6h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Expert
70
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
593
Total Notes
50%
Interleaved
5.16
Avg N/Beat
60
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
50% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 10 notes/beat (avg 5.16) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
12/20
60 ornamental notes (10.1%) - frequent ornaments
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
10/15
Right: G3–G7 (48 st) | Left: C2–G5 (43 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
6/10
24 st (2 Oct) - large leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
0/8
1% black-key notes - mostly white keys, easy to read
♬
Polyphony / Voices
4/7
~2.5 notes active per beat (max 6) - melody + accompaniment with inner voices
⏳
Piece Length
1/5
1m 38s - short-medium length
🎚 Dynamics
mf
Wide dynamic range (mf 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 | C2 |
| Highest | G5 |
| Span | 43 st (3Oct+P5) |
| Notes | 191 |
| Widest leap | 24 st G2→G4 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | G3 |
| Highest | G7 |
| Span | 48 st (4 Oct) |
| Notes | 402 |
| Widest leap | 24 st G7→G5 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 4 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 9 semitones (M6)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 130 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
13%
Repeated
Only 4 of 30 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 7–8
Hardest
📍 Measures 21–22
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 25–26
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Ballade pour Adeline Piano on piano?
Ballade pour Adeline Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 70/100.
It was composed by Paul De Senneville. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 1m 38s. It contains 593 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Ballade pour Adeline Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Ballade pour Adeline Piano to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
20 weeks
(~132 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 Ballade pour Adeline Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Ballade pour Adeline Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 2 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
Is there a video tutorial for Ballade pour Adeline Piano piano?
Yes — a piano video tutorial for Ballade pour Adeline 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 72 BPM.
What piano level is required to play Ballade pour Adeline Piano?
Ballade pour Adeline Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 70/100).
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 Ballade pour Adeline Piano?
Enigmatic and veiled, full of felt but unseen things — full of motion in every corner, warm and easy in its delivery, swinging between silence and full force. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 72 BPM.
