🎹 Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano
🎭 Emotional Character
Nostalgic and tender, touched by a gentle wistfulness, settled and full in its voice — balanced, neither urgent nor idle, holding its emotional level to the end.
👤 Suggested For
🏆 Advanced Students
🎹 Concert Pianists
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 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
79
/ 100
Professional - complex layering and high speed required
897
Total Notes
47%
Interleaved
5.28
Avg N/Beat
20
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼
Hand Interleaving
17/25
47% of notes interleave - frequent interleaving, needs good independence
⏱
Note Density per Beat
20/30
Busiest beats: 9 notes/beat (avg 5.28) - dense passages
✨
Ornaments & Grace Notes
5/20
20 ornamental notes (2.2%) - occasional ornaments
📏
Pitch Range (per hand)
15/15
Right: C#2–F#6 (53 st) | Left: D2–F#4 (28 st)
↕
Largest Interval Leap
10/10
43 st (3Oct+P5) - extreme leaps
#
Chromatic Complexity
5/8
31% black-key notes - moderate accidentals
♬
Polyphony / Voices
7/7
~6.1 notes active per beat (max 10) - contrapuntal texture, multiple independent lines
⏳
Piece Length
0/5
1m 26s - short piece
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
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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 | D2 |
| Highest | F#4 |
| Span | 28 st (2Oct+M3) |
| Notes | 313 |
| Widest leap | 26 st F#4→E2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | C#2 |
| Highest | F#6 |
| Span | 53 st (4Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 584 |
| Widest leap | 43 st A5→D2 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.7 notes · 7 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 43 semitones (3Oct+P5)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 4.7 notes · 70 chords
⚠️ 59 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
No significant scale runs detected — this piece does not heavily rely on thumb-crossing technique.
🔁 Repeating Phrases
19%
Repeated
Only 8 of 43 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 8–9
Hardest
📍 Measures 23–24
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 32–33
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano on piano?
Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano is rated
Expert
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 79/100.
It was composed by Nguyễn Vũ. Only advanced pianists with strong technique, high note density tolerance, and expressive control should attempt this piece. The piece runs approximately 1m 26s. It contains 897 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning Bài Thánh Ca Buồn 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 Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano directly on this page.
The sheet is 5 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
Is there a video tutorial for Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano piano?
Yes — a piano video tutorial for Bài Thánh Ca Buồn 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 97 BPM.
What piano level is required to play Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano?
Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano is suited for
Expert
level pianists (difficulty score 79/100).
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 Bài Thánh Ca Buồn Piano?
Nostalgic and tender, touched by a gentle wistfulness, settled and full in its voice — balanced, neither urgent nor idle, holding its emotional level to the end. It belongs to the Piano
· Christmas piano
genre.
The piece is played at 97 BPM.
