My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book B

Nancy and Randall Faber

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

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

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 4th of any quality.

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

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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

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

Simple intervals that introduce students to 2nds and use two adjacent white keys.

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

A simple five-finger hand position where the thumbs rest on adjacent notes.

The note one step above Bass F; the G in the middle of the keyboard.