Piano - Elementary SKU: KJ.WP472
Edited by Lisa Bastien and Lori Bastien. Piano/Technique. Bastien Essentials: Technic Classics. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #WP472. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP472). ISBN 9780849799143.
Exercises by the master 19th century pedagogues appear more frequently throughout this book than the previous levels. Many exercises are included that build the skills needed for hands-together playing, agility development, finger crossing skills (needed to play fulloctave scales), melodic and harmonic 6ths, as well as I chords, inverted IV and V7 chords for cadences. Also included are hand-over-hand exercises and early experiences in voicing some notes louder than others within a series of eighth notes. Includes 58 exercises on 32 pages.