Jane Smisor Bastien

Now beginning players can enjoy this best-selling book with a Online Audio! This piano course provides the student the opportunity to experience the joy of playing while learning the rudiments of musi...

Now beginning players can enjoy this best-selling book with a Online Audio! This piano course provides the student the opportunity to experience the joy of playing while learning the rudiments of musi...

Now beginning players can enjoy this best-selling book with a CD! This piano course provides the student the opportunity to experience the joy of playing while learning the rudiments of music in a log...

Now beginning players can enjoy this best-selling book with a CD! This piano course provides the student the opportunity to experience the joy of playing while learning the rudiments of music in a log...

Notespelling takes on a whole new look in this delightful book! Students identify the notes, each with a specified color, and then color in the designated area, creating a pretty picture. Notes are ad...

A color-by-number approach to teaching note reading. Book 2 contains a reading range from Low C to High C. Notes are often grouped by seconds or thirds to aid in teaching intervals. 'Speed drills' all...

In this delightful addition to the Color by Note series, students identify notes and intervals, and add missing notes to the Monster music, involving an understanding of note location on the staff, rh...

This thorough method gently leads the student, step-by-step, through basic keyboard fundamentals, reinforced by related artwork and activities. Multi-key reading is introduced gradually throughout the...

Each book contains parallel theory instruction, correlated unit-by-unit with the materials in the corresponding Piano Lessons book. Writing, playing, and ear-training drills isolate and reinforce conc...

An excellent beginner book that provides reading work in Middle C and C major five-finger positions. Introduces music fundamentals such as the keyboard, rhythm, and notation. The tonic chord carefully...

Theory and Technic provides parallel theory and technic instruction correlated with the Traditional Primer. Writing and playing drills reinforce musical concepts, and exercises are included to develop...

Emphasizes exercises in major and minor keys. Also works with key signatures, intervals, scales, augmented and diminishes triads, triads of major and minor scales, dominant seventh chords, and cadence...

Provides a nice balance between studying musical forms and continuing work in scales and triads. Also presents figured bass, modulation (secondary dominant), musical textures, and music terms.

Provides expanded work with intervals, scales, triads, musical forms, figured bass, modulation, and musical textures. Also includes a comprehensive presentation of ornamentation.

New presentations include arpeggios, turn studies, and double third studies. In addition to original etudes and exercises, there are works by Burgmuller, Czerny, Heller, and Kohler.

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 stimulat...

Theory is the theory workbook portion of the Bastien Piano Basics course. Each book contains written work and some short pieces to reinforce the concepts presented in Piano. Games, puzzles, and colorf...