🎹 With An Orchid
👤 Suggested For
🎓 Intermediate Students
🏆 Advanced Students
🖐 Large Hands
🎤 Recital Repertoire
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
11
weeks to performance-ready
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
5hper week
67htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~5h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Advanced
58
/ 100
Challenging - needs solid technique and independence
1,823
Total Notes
32%
Interleaved
5.24
Avg N/Beat
19
Ornaments
⚠ Challenges
✅ Accessible
🎭 Emotional Character
Gentle and lyrical, with a smile in every phrase — each note drawn out like a slow breath, steady and unwavering in tone.
🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand)
Lower dot = LH (Left Hand)
White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
🎚 Dynamics
ff
Moderate dynamics (ff avg) - clear expression required
pppmpmfffffff
📐 Note Range per Hand · Sheet Preview
🤚 Left Hand
| Lowest | D2 |
| Highest | G4 |
| Span | 29 st (2Oct+P4) |
| Notes | 904 |
| Widest leap | 29 st G4→D2 |
🖐 Right Hand
| Lowest | F#3 |
| Highest | A6 |
| Span | 39 st (3Oct+m3) |
| Notes | 919 |
| Widest leap | 26 st E6→D4 |
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 12 semitones (Oct)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 18 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 22 semitones (1Oct+m7)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes · 241 chords
⚠️ 12 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 1 scale/arpeggio run requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 1 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
14%
Repeated
Only 13 of 92 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 25–26
Hardest
📍 Measures 47–48
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 75–76
3rd hardest
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How difficult is With An Orchid on piano?
With An Orchid is rated
Advanced
on PianoMetric's piano difficulty scale, with a score of 58/100.
It was composed by Yanni. This piece requires solid technique including hand independence, dynamics control, and expressive phrasing. The piece runs approximately 5m 10s. It contains 1,823 notes in total.
How long does it take to learn With An Orchid?
Based on PianoMetric's analysis, learning With An Orchid to a
performance-ready level takes approximately
11 weeks
(~67 total practice hours) for a advanced level student.
A serious study piece — consistent daily practice over several months is realistic.
Where can I download the piano sheet music PDF for With An Orchid?
You can download the piano sheet music PDF for With An Orchid directly on this page.
The sheet is 5 pages long.
Click the 'PDF Download' button above to get the full score.
What piano level is required to play With An Orchid?
With An Orchid is suited for
Advanced
level pianists (difficulty score 58/100).
Expect to work on hand independence, dynamics shaping, and nuanced phrasing — this is a serious repertoire piece.
What is the mood or feel of With An Orchid?
Gentle and lyrical, with a smile in every phrase — each note drawn out like a slow breath, steady and unwavering in tone. It belongs to the Piano
genre.
The piece is played at 25 BPM.
