Cool Beans! Vol. 1

Ben Crosland

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

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 5th of any quality.

Two notes played together, usually in one hand but sometimes in both, whose distance is the interval of a 6th of any quality.

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

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

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

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.

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.