Cool Beans! Vol. 2

Ben Crosland

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

8th Notes

An Italian term meaning "in time"; an indication instructing the player to return to the original tempo after a deviation.

A Tempo

Indications placed above or below notes instructing the player to hold those notes longer than their original notated length.

Fermatas

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

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.

Parallel 3rds

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

Quarter Notes

An Italian term meaning "delaying"; an indication instructing the player to decrease speed, often gradually.

Ritardando

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

Syncopation

Notes whose values are determined by a subdivision into three-note groupings instead of two or four.

Triplets

G 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

Relaxing

Editions Musica Ferrum

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