Accompaniment Patterns

A type of waltz accompaniment pattern that uses intermediate skills like shifting, extending, and multiple voices, but without octave leaps.

Expression

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

Expression

An indication instructing the player to play moderately soft; between mezzo forte and piano.

Texture

A type of texture where one or both hands play more than one voice at a time; usually briefly and with simple rhythms.

Expression

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.

Rhythm

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