Cool Beans! Vol. 1

Ben Crosland

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

A type of accompaniment pattern that primarily uses repeating blocked 5ths in a single position with simple or slow-moving rhythms.

Indications instructing the player to play gradually louder (crescendo) or softer (diminuendo).

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time with large intervals, many hand positions, and complex rhythms.

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

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

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

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.

Symbols indicating that two notes are to be played as one with the value equal to their sum.

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 3rd intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.