Cool Beans! Vol. 1

Songs from Rainbow Hill

Beams that connect notes in the left hand and right hand; used when a single voice is played between both hands.

Indications instructing the player to play gradually louder (crescendo) or softer (diminuendo).

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

Additional lines added above or below the staff in order to place very high or very low notes that wouldn't normally fit on the staff.

Notes whose lengths are equal to one-sixteenth the value of a whole note or one quarter of a quarter note.

An Italian term meaning "delaying"; an indication instructing the player to decrease speed, often gradually.

Also called the damper pedal, it is the rightmost pedal on the piano and used to sustain notes by moving the dampers away from the strings.

A type of articulation indicating the player to play smoothly and seamlessly, with the notes slightly overlapped.