My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book A

Nancy and Randall Faber

Vertical lines on the staff that separate notated music into measures.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 3rd of any quality.

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

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

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

A type of notation that doesn't use staff lines; sometimes called "floating notes".

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

A bass clef used without grand staff notation that helps students understand when to play the left hand.

A treble clef used without grand staff notation that helps students understand when to play the right hand.

A type of primary-level notation where the pitch names are placed inside the noteheads; often used in combination with off-staff notation.

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

In the Primary and Elementary levels, when only one hand plays at a time and the notes alternate continually between both hands.