Premier Piano Course, Lesson 3

Dennis Alexander

Notes whose lengths are equal to one-eighth the value of a whole note or half the value of a quarter note.

Sharps, flats and naturals that do not appear in a key signature.

An Italian term meaning "in time"; an indication instructing the player to return to the original tempo after a deviation.

An accompaniment that uses a variety of blocked intervals with a relatively equal rate of occurrence. 

Chord tones played one note at a time that are not part of an accompaniment pattern.

Additional lines added above or below the staff in order to place very high or very low notes that wouldn't normally fit on the staff.

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

An Italian term meaning "delaying"; an indication instructing the player to decrease speed, often gradually.

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.

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.

Temporary displacement of established meter by the stressing of a weak beat.

A simple scale that contains the first five notes of the D Major scale.