🎹 Chopin Concerto No.2, Op.21, Larghetto

Frédéric Chopin· Expert· 2,982 notes· Tempo 48 BPM· 22,300 views· Update 25/12/2025
🎭 Emotional Character
Radiant and celebratory, made for joyful moments — each note drawn out like a slow breath, with wide dramatic swings in volume.
Major Very slow tempo Moderate dynamics Dense texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
🎹 Concert Pianists 🖐 Large Hands 🎼 Scale Technique Focus 🎤 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
91 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Professional - complex layering and high speed required

2,982
Total Notes
1%
Interleaved
9.15
Avg N/Beat
1296
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 1/25
1% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
Note Density per Beat 30/30
Busiest beats: 18 notes/beat (avg 9.15) - extremely dense
Ornaments & Grace Notes 20/20
1296 ornamental notes (43.5%) - heavy ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 15/15
Right: C#5–D#6 (14 st) | Left: D#1–F7 (74 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
58 st (4Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
# Chromatic Complexity 8/8
61% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
Polyphony / Voices 2/7
~2.4 notes active per beat (max 8) - occasional two-voice texture
Piece Length 5/5
6m 59s - long piece: stamina & memorisation required
🎚 Dynamics
f
Wide dynamic range (f avg) - strong expressive control needed
Avg velocity 76/127  ·  Spread 94  ·  Range 33–127
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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
LowestD#1
HighestF7
Span74 st (6Oct+M2)
Notes2,965
Widest leap58 st  G2→F7
🖐 Right Hand
LowestC#5
HighestD#6
Span14 st (1Oct+M2)
Notes17
Widest leap12 st  D#5→D#6
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Max chord span: 69 semitones (5Oct+M6)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.9 notes  ·  880 chords
⚠️ 312 stretch chords (>octave)
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes  ·  1 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 5 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🤚 LH: 5 runs · longest 7 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
3%
Repeated
Only 3 of 97 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 35–36
Hardest
📍 Measures 72–73
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 80–81
3rd hardest