🎹 The name of life, Inochi No Namae (Joe Hisaishi)

Joe Hisaishi · Intermediate · 1,598 notes· Tempo 80 BPM· 5,000 views· Update 25/12/2025 · Piano · Japanese Piano · Soundtrack
🎭 Emotional Character
Dazzling and proud, surging with confident energy, weighty and direct, with real conviction — balanced, neither urgent nor idle, holding its emotional level to the end.
Major Moderate tempo Strong dynamics Busy texture Wide-ranging melody
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👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners 🎓 Intermediate Students 🖐 Large Hands
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
4
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4hper week
22htotal est.
3hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Intermediate
39 / 100
BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedExpert

Moderate - requires coordination between hands

1,598
Total Notes
6%
Interleaved
3.44
Avg N/Beat
13
Ornaments
Score Breakdown
🎼 Hand Interleaving 1/25
6% of notes interleave - hands mostly play separately
Note Density per Beat 5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 3.44) - comfortable density
Ornaments & Grace Notes 0/20
13 ornamental notes (0.8%) - no significant ornamentation
📏 Pitch Range (per hand) 10/15
Right: F#3–C#7 (43 st) | Left: C#1–C#5 (48 st)
Largest Interval Leap 10/10
36 st (3 Oct) - extreme leaps
# Chromatic Complexity 8/8
64% black-key notes - heavy accidentals, hard to sight-read
Polyphony / Voices 0/7
~1.5 notes active per beat (max 6) - mostly single-line melody
Piece Length 5/5
5m 26s - long piece: stamina & memorisation required
🎚 Dynamics
f
Moderate dynamics (f avg) - clear expression required
Avg velocity 86/127  ·  Spread 32  ·  Range 64–96
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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
LowestC#1
HighestC#5
Span48 st (4 Oct)
Notes663
Widest leap36 st  F#4→F#1
🖐 Right Hand
LowestF#3
HighestC#7
Span43 st (3Oct+P5)
Notes935
Widest leap28 st  C6→G#3
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Max chord span: 26 semitones (2Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.1 notes  ·  113 chords
⚠️ 3 stretch chords (>octave)
Max chord span: 26 semitones (2Oct+M2)
0 stOctave2 Oct
Avg chord: 2.3 notes  ·  157 chords
⚠️ 2 stretch chords (>octave)
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 3 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing. Moderate scale work — thumb crossings appear in key passages.
🖐 RH: 3 runs · longest 21 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
2%
Repeated
Only 3 of 126 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 31–32
Hardest
📍 Measures 77–78
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 81–82
3rd hardest