Premier Piano Course, Lesson 1B

Dennis Alexander

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses repeating blocked 5ths in a single position with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the C Major scale.

Indications placed above or below notes instructing the player to hold those notes longer than their original notated length.

A sign placed in front of a note that lowers its pitch by a half step.

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

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

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 5th of any quality.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of an octave of any quality.

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

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

A sign placed in front of a note that raises its pitch by a half step.

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.

Symbols indicating that two notes are to be played as one with the value equal to their sum.