My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book C

Nancy and Randall Faber

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

A technique that involves only one hand playing at a time throughout most or all of a piece.

A simple melody line shared by both the right hand and the left hand.

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

The same note that occurs several times in a row throughout a piece.

Simple intervals that introduce students to 3rds and use two white keys with one white key in between; skipping over one white key.

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.

Changing from one finger to another on the different notes of a series of repeated notes.

Simple five-note scales whose notes fit within a comfortable hand shape; applied when more than one such scale appears in a piece.