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.

Half notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three quarter notes.

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

A type of notation that uses two standard five-line staves combined together with a brace; usually indicating right hand and left hand notes.

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

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

A time signature where the fundamental beat is subdivided into groupings of two.

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

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.