Cool Beans! Vol. 1

Ben Crosland

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses broken 5th intervals with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

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

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

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.

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 3rd intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

The physical motion of crossing fingers 2, 3, 4, or 5 over the thumb; used when playing scalar passages or outside of five finger scales.

Two notes connected together smoothly where the second note is played softer and lighter.