My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book C

Nancy and Randall Faber

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

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

Half notes whose lengths are increased by half; equal to three quarter notes.

Both hands playing at the same time in either Primary or Early Elementary level works.

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

The same note that occurs several times in a row throughout a piece.

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

A type texture that occurs when the contour, distance, and speed of the notes in one hand matches that of the other hand as they play together.

Simple five-note scales whose notes fit within a comfortable hand shape; applied when more than one such scale appears in a piece.