Bastien: Piano for the Young Beginner in PDF – Elementary A and B – Interactive Sheet Music

Bastien’s first two books for starting the piano at age 5 or 6, full of illustrations: Elementary A and B, with every piece in MIDI & MusicXML Player.

Level 02 books · 99 piecesInteractive sheet music

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What’s inside

Contents of the Bastien method: Piano for the Young Beginner

Organization of the pieces by difficulty

Piano for the Young Beginner is a set of two books to start from scratch, designed above all for children aged 5 and 6. Both are beginner level:

Difficulty	Book	Open in the player
Level 0	Elementary A (46 pieces)
Level 0	Elementary B (53 pieces)

Piano for the Young Beginner – Elementary A

Sitting at the piano. Hand position
Finger numbers
The black keys
Low and high
Notation without a staff
- The rhythm of music
- Two black cats
Marching song
Rain
The jumping frogs
The clouds
Carnival
The Swing
The whole note
- My lamb
Snow
The ducks in the pond
Middle C position
- On Pepín’s farm
The Zoo
The carousel
The turtle
Pepa and Luis
My kitten
The clock
The seagulls
The circus
Up and down
Hide and seek
The balloon
The giant cookies
Sailing
Rufo
The owl
The treasure
Baseball
My little horse
Jump, Juan!
Yankee Doodle
Christmas is coming
Autumn leaves
The snowman
Christmas trees
Jolly Saint Nicholas

Piano for the Young Beginner – Elementary B

Little Bells
Two Little Birds
The Cat in the Well
I Climb Up the Bars
The Swing
The Frog and the Bee
The Little Train
Intervals
- I’m Sleepy
Humpty Dumpty
Birthday
The Little Fish
Three Clowns
My Dog
Little Doll
My Kitty
The Climbing Spiders
The Scarecrow
At the Zoo
Two Ducks
Wind-up Soldiers
Poor Tom!
The Bears
Roby the Robot
The Bells
The Clouds
The Rabbits
Indian Drums
Jump Rope
The Clock
G Position
- Up and Down
Our Planet
Popcorn
Do You Love Me?
Seven Balloons
The Singing Donkey
Electric Bass
The Dragon
The Skinny Dog
Juan the Indian

About the method

James Bastien and his Piano for the Young Beginner

The Bastien method: Piano for the Young Beginner (Amazon link) is a set of two books for those who are starting out in the world of piano, and it is especially aimed at children aged 5 and 6, as it includes lots of illustrations that will make studying much more fun.

This set of books serves as an introduction to the following 4 Bastien methods, still at beginner level: Bastien Basic Piano – Level 1 – 4.

Bastien: Piano for the Young Beginner in PDF

Although all the interactive sheet music for every exercise is available in MIDI & MusicXML Player, this PDF version is currently protected by intellectual property law and therefore is not available for download.

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