My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book B

Nancy and Randall Faber

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

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.

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.

Special graphics or icons used alongside pre-reading notation to aid in the comprehension of various concepts at the primary level.

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

One or both hands moving from one simple hand position to another an octave higher or lower, sometimes seen before octaves are learned.