Features:

Bastien New Traditions is a comprehensive and integrated method for beginning piano study that is easy to use and paced just right for today’s busy students. Concepts are presented in a holistic way, with lesson, theory, and technic pages mixed with attractive performance pieces all in the same volume. A gradual multi-key approach is used allowing students to experience complete keyboard knowledge. There is a clear step-by-step presentation of concepts and skills with straightforward, simple reinforcement and review throughout the series. The learning sequence is carefully graded to ensure steady progress, and students will love the selection of music as well as the beautiful watercolor illustrations. Primer A.

Table of Contents:

• Sitting at the Piano
• Finger Numbers
• Rhythm in Music
• Clapping Rhythms
• Henry the Banana
• Henry's March
• The Piano Keyboard
• Listening: Low, Middle, and High
• Fog Horn
• Handbells
• Moving Up and Down
• Rests in Music
• Swishing Down the Slide
• Flying Up So High
• Listening: Moving Up or Down
• Clapping Rhythms
• Honking Geese
• Flute Sounds
• Polar Bear Parade
• Ice Skating
• Swim with Me
• The Secret Garden
• Old MacDonald
• Naming the White Key: ABCDEFG Playing the Musical Alphabet
• White Keys: CDE
• Soccer Game
• Tennis Time
• White Keys: FGAB
• Creeping Cats
• Mice in Motion
• Space Flight
• Playing White Keys
• Listening: Moving Up or Down
• Playing Repeated Notes
• The North Sea
• Chasing My Tail
• Review
• Playing White Keys
• Treasure Island
• Running to the Basement
• Running to the Attic
• Summer Pleasures
• Westminster Chimes
• Review
• Games at the Fair
• Street Scene
• Hiking Downhill
• BINGO
• The Smiling Crocodile
• Harp Melody
• Review
• On the Seashore
• Whirligig Festival
• Down by the Station
• Review
• Ode to Joy
• Drums in the Distance

Catalog:	WP450
Publisher:	Kjos
Composer:	Bastien, Lisa, Lori & Jane Bastien
Artist:
Arranger:
Voicing:	Piano
Level:	Primer A
Pages:	72