Cool Beans! Vol. 1

Ben Crosland

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

16th Notes

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

8th Notes

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

Blocked 5ths Accompaniment

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

Crescendo and Diminuendo

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

Dotted 8th Notes

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

Dotted Quarter Notes

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.

Intermediate Two Voices in One Hand

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

Legato

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

Quarter Notes

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.

Sustain Pedal

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

Ties

D Major

Students build on the technical skills they learned in elementary levels by moving around the keyboard with more fluency, playing faster, playing with more voices, and using more complicated harmonies, melodies, and rhythms.

Early Intermediate

Dreamy

Melancholic

Editions Musica Ferrum

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