Is this video game piece physically playable?
This is a video game track that got translated into this piano sheet, the original track was made with software I'm wondering if this middle solo is physically playable?
4/4 tempo: 152
appears to have some parts in mezzo forte, as you can see it uses crescendos and decrescendos that seems too difficult for such tempo but these are vital for the original feeling
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It's playable, but at a slightly advanced level. It's best played by someone with quick hands, skill at sixteenth notes, and high skill level.
Not really an answer, but I don't have enough rep to make a comment...
As the comments stated, the song is Flowering Night from the Touhou series.
Yes, it is possible to play such Touhou songs on the piano. Here is someone playing this song (at 1:25 it lines up with the sheet music). He is probably playing it slower than original though. Here is another pianist playing another Touhou song - not the one you have shown, but also having quick notes. That last pianist - marasy - can play a lot of Touhou songs, even the fast ones. Though I can't find a video of him playing Flowering Night in particular, I am sure he would be able to play such a piece.
There's nothing impossible in the notation; sure, it's fast, and there's an unhealthy obsession with semiquavers, but I'm pretty sure that it could be played.
Could I play it? No. But that's because I'm not motivated enough to practice it. Or actually talented, but that's beside the point. Could the average pianist play it? Maybe. Could a professional? Sure; see Flight of the Bumblebee.
The expression is not a big problem. You'll get some of that naturally, as it follows the contour of the melody. And it's not that dramatic anyway.
In short, I'm sure someone could play it. Is it you? I don't know, but you might as well give it a go.
The almost two-octave leaps down in the 2nd ending are pretty unreasonable at that speed, though the rest of it is not too difficult at all.
This doesn’t look especially on the verge of impossibility; there are, as just one example, Ligeti piano etudes that are far more difficult than this, and pianists play those. At any rate, there’s nothing problematic about the dynamics at all, it’s weird to suggest that.
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