My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book C

Nancy and Randall Faber

An indication instructing the player to play loudly.

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 hand position where either the right-hand or left-thumbs play middle C or where both thumbs share middle C.

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 3rds and use two white keys with one white key in between; skipping over one white key.

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