Bastien Piano Method
Is It The Right Method For You?
out there for you to choose from!
You should be able to find them these books at your local music store.
Most of the music is based on Classical music and lot of music teachers use the Bastien piano method for teaching their students.
Let us find out a bit more about this method...
Bastien Piano Method
An overview
Bastien is one of the several piano methods available to teach piano. They have a good collection of books which takes you right from the beginning to the advanced levels. The concepts are laid out in an easy to follow manner. Though for the beginner books, you may need to supplement the lessons with extra songs, since the various musical concepts are introduced a bit too soon for good retention by students.
The different Bastien Piano method books
This is a set of 3 books which teaches you finger numbers (1-5), musical alphabets (A-G) and the different key signatures on the grand staff. After completing these three books, the students would move to the regular Basics curriculum.
This course consists of two books - Primer A and Primer B. The objective is to give sufficient lessons to be comfortable to read on the grand staff. After completing these two books, the students would move on to Level 1 of the Basics.
This course consists of five levels - Primer and levels 1 to 4. Each level has a set of books - Piano Theory, Performance (Repertoire), Technique, Sight Reading. You will find accompaniment CDs for all these levels.
This course consists of two levels, each with three books - the lesson book, Favorite Melodies the World Over, and Musicianship for the Older Beginner (this has keyboard technique and theory).
This course consists of 3 levels, each level has four books - Repertoire (Lessons), Technique, Theory, and Multi-key solos. Multi-key solos simply mean that the songs would have key signature changes - i.e. sharps and flats - within the song.
This is one of the best courses Of all the Bastien courses, simply because it tries to 'bridge the gap' between the basics course and the advanced courses; you will not find many good courses in this area!
The adult course contains a combination of books - Lessons, Music Theory, Technique, Exercises, and some sight reading. The lessons are based on a variety of styles, like classical, jazz, folk songs, and original compositions. You will also find accompaniment CDs for this course.
Bastien Piano Method
Final thoughts...
As with most methods, the beginner courses are quite popular for this piano method; the intermediate course offered is also very good. In general though, lot of students feel that the lessons in the Bastien method should be having more variety and should not be more tilted towards classical. But finally, the choice of a piano method is person dependent since lot of us have preferences and favorites. Many teachers use a combination of piano methods so feel free to use whatever suits you.
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