My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book B

Nancy and Randall Faber

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

Two notes played in succession, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 4th of any quality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A symbol indicating that a section should be repeated.

A single bass staff used throughout a work.