Bastien Piano Basics uses a gradual multi-key approach, with reading beginning in the C five-finger position. Five levels of carefully graded lesson material provide constant opportunities for reinforcing basic concepts. It's the smoothest, most heart-warming, most entertaining, most musical way to teach eager youngsters the joys of playing the piano. And comprehensive, page-by-page correlation makes Bastien Piano Basics remarkably easy to teach!
Level 2 of the Piano Series 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.
Level 2 of the Theory Series provides theory materials correlated with Piano.
Level 2 of the Technic Series includes technic exercises correlated with Piano.
Level 2 of the Performance Series contains 19 imaginative supplementary pieces to augment learning.