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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

A series of blocked octaves that are played one hand at a time and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion using predominantly 8th note rhythms.

8th Note Parallel Octaves

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

An accompaniment pattern where the hand regularly moves distances greater than an octave to play a series of blocked chords.

Blocked Chord Accompaniment With Leaps

The use of notes not in the prevailing mode or diatonic scale of a piece.

Chromaticism

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

Clef Changes

Notes that are either raised or lowered by two semitones.

Double Accidentals

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into two-note groupings instead of three.

Duplets

Hand positions that require stretching beyond a five finger scale; usually to play intervals that are 6ths or greater.

Extended Hand Positions

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

Grace Notes

More than key signature used in a single piece or movement.

Key Signature Changes

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.

Large Hand Stretches

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

More than one time signature used in a single piece or movement.

Multiple Time Signatures

A series of blocked intervals that are to be executed at a fast speed and in succession.

Rapid Blocked Intervals

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

Rolled Chords

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.

Triplets

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

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