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An accompaniment that uses a single bass note, octave, 7th, or tenth on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.

Stride Accompaniment

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.

Triplets

8th Note Triplets

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

16th Notes

8th notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three 16th notes.

Dotted 8th Notes

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

Syncopation

Hand positions that require stretching beyond a five finger scale; usually to play intervals that are 6ths or greater.

Extended Hand Positions

A type of articulation indicating the player to play smoothly and seamlessly, with the notes slightly overlapped.

Legato

Intervals and chords played in one hand that require significant stretching between at least two notes and where the outer intervals reach further than an octave.

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