Piano Adventures Primer Level Lesson Book (2nd Edition)

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.

When only the left hand is used throughout an entire piece.

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of an octave of any quality.

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

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

A technique that requires the player to pick up and move their hand to a new position; usually from a five finger scale to another.

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

One of the landmark notes; the C in the middle of the keyboard.

One of the landmarks; the C an octave below Middle C.