Cool Beans! Vol. 2

Ben Crosland

Indications instructing the player to put special emphasis on notes.

Accents

Sharps, flats and naturals that do not appear in a key signature.

Accidentals

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

Legato

Symbols that indicate playing a note or range of notes either an octave higher or lower than notated.

Octave Higher and Octave Lower

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

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

Simple Two Voices in One Hand

A type of articulation indicating the player to play short and light; notes not held for their full value.

Staccato

A technique of playing 8th notes where the first 8th note is held longer than the second of a grouping of two; used often in jazz and blues.

Swing 8ths

C 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

Energetic

Happy

Editions Musica Ferrum

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