Accompaniment Patterns

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

Intervals

A series of any amount or quality of blocked 5th intervals that are played in one hand, and where both notes move up or down in parallel motion.

Expression

An indication instructing the player to play softly.

Hand and Finger Techniques

A technique that requires the player to pick up and move their hand to a new position; usually from a five finger scale to another.

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.

Expression

A type of articulation indicating to the player that a given note should be held for its full value or slightly more.

Rhythm

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

Scales

A scale comprised entirely of whole steps.