🎹 Chopin Concerto No.2, Op.21, Larghetto
Frédéric Chopin · Expert ·
2,982 notes ·
Tempo 48 BPM ·
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Update 25/12/2025
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🎭 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
👤 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.
6h per week
156h 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
1/25
1% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
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Note Density per Beat
30/30
Busiest beats: 18 notes/beat (avg 9.15) - extremely dense
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
20/20
1296 ornamental notes (43.5%) - heavy ornamentation
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Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: C#5–D#6 (14 st) | Left: D#1–F7 (74 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
10/10
58 st (4Oct+m7) - extreme leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
8/8
61% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
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Polyphony / Voices
2/7
~2.4 notes active per beat (max 8) - occasional two-voice texture
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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
🎹 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 D#1
Highest F7
Span 74 st (6Oct+M2)
Notes 2,965
Widest leap 58 st G2→F7
🖐 Right Hand
Lowest C#5
Highest D#6
Span 14 st (1Oct+M2)
Notes 17
Widest leap 12 st D#5→D#6
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 69 semitones (5Oct+M6)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.9 notes · 880 chords
⚠️ 312 stretch chords (>octave)
Right Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 st Octave 2 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
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 72–73
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 80–81
3rd hardest
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