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Notes whose lengths are equal to half the value of one sixteenth note.

32nd Notes

Arpeggios played with predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Arpeggios

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 3rd intervals that are played in one hand and move up or down in primarily 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Parallel 3rds

Passages with constant step-wise motion and mainly 8th note rhythmic values.

8th Note Scale Passages

A type of technically challenging and musically complex texture where one or both hands play several voices simultaneously.

Advanced Multiple Voices in One Hand

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses major and minor triads with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Blocked Chord Accompaniment

More than one clef used in a staff in a single piece or movement.

Clef Changes

Ornamentations that are notated in a smaller size than normal notes and played slightly before them.

Grace Notes

A technique that involves one hand crossing over or under the other.

Hand Crossing

A type of texture where one hand plays a series of notes that are mimicked in the other hand.

Imitation

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.

Ledger Lines

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where additional notes of different qualities are added in between the octaves.

Parallel Octaves with Inner Notes

A series of hand position expansions and contractions that are to be executed at a fast speed. 

Rapid Stretches

Leaps greater than an octave that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession. 

Rapid Leaps

Hand position changes, less than an octave, that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession. 

Rapid Shifts

A blocked chord whose notes are played quickly in succession which gives the chord a harp-like sound.

Rolled Chords

Notes that are held while the harmony changes, often creating dissonance or tension.

Suspensions

Playing chords while simultaneously bringing out and phrasing one of the notes as a melody.

Chord Voicing

Chords played with four notes (including seventh chords) that usually require stretching beyond a five finger position.

Four Note Chords

Intervals and chords played in one hand that require significant stretching between at least two notes and where the outer intervals reach further than an octave.

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