Instrumentation: Piano
By James Bastien
Format: Book
Level or Grade: 2
Number of pages: 55
Series: Bastien Piano Basics

Method. Learn To Play.
Instructional book. With introductory text, instructional text, easy piano notation, fingerings, lyrics (on some songs) and illustrations.

Piano is the main lesson book in the Bastien Piano Basics course. The carefully graded, logical learning sequence assures steady, continual progress. Original music by the Bastiens includes a stimulating mixture of pop, folk, classical, and contemporary styles. Full-color illustrations throughout entertain and reinforce musical concepts along the way. The gradual multi-key approach takes students through all 12 keys -- 3 in each of Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each page is carefully correlated page-by-page with Theory, Performance,andTechnic. All in all, a dynamic way to introduce students to the marvelous world of music!

Level 2 presents binary and ternary form, one-octave scales with tetrachords identified, intervals of 6th and 7th, primary chords, triads and inversions, 6/8 time, and the keys of D, A, and E.