WP230 - Piano for the Young Beginner - Primer A Paperback – January 1, 1987

Very good guide to teaching young children how to play piano starting with the most rudimentary basics. The book begins with how to sit correctly at the piano, moves on to hand positions and the numbering of each finger, and ends with some basic songs for the student to play using both bass and treble clef (though not yet at the same time).It teaches the notes in separate, digestible lessons, and is very helpful to someone like me, who, in trying to teach my 6-year old niece piano, was struggling in teaching her how to count out the notes in a way she understood and found engaging. The first few lessons use numbers for the fingers to introduce the notes before then moving on to teaching the notes as they appear in sheet music. It focuses on the spatial difference between the notes to introduce them instead of how they appear in sheet music, which is something I liked and think is great for someone just starting out.Every page also has great illustrations that really add to the quality of the book as a whole. They aid in teaching, such as showing children how to sit correctly; and they also help convey the feeling of the songs in the book through visual representation. Hence, the illustrations are not only nice cosmetic additions to the book, but they also add another layer of conceptual understanding.This book is a great guide to anyone who wants to teach their child how to play piano using core concepts that they can truly understand. Teaching a child how to play any instrument without any kind of guidance, regardless of how well you yourself may play the instrument, is challenging. Keeping them truly engaged while you talk to them about a sheet with lines and dots is almost impossible, and whether they truly understand what you are teaching them can be questionable. This book not only engages children with its friendly and familiar approach—large text and cartoon drawings—but also acts as a great guide to teach children how to truly understand the core musical concepts on which to build later on.

This is a great first step in the piano learning journey. I grew up playing and wanted to start my 5 yr old with some easy learning at home and she’s really enjoyed it! Easy for her to learn and easy for me to teach!

This book for very young players is really well done. Nice color illustrations. Very clear instructional pictures and cute songs.

In my opinion, this is the best book to use for young children between the ages of 6-8 because the notes have the names of the keys on them, which makes it very easy for the kids to know which keys to play. I'm supplementing this by taping labels with the names of the notes onto the keys so that they can see both on the keyboard and in the book where to play. This process really helped me learn how to read notes, and I think it is helping my students greatly too.The songs are very fun for the kids, and they also like to learn the words to the songs. The songs are basic but fun, and very helpful in learning how to play in different patterns. The pictures are cute, and the children seem to like them. Overall, I think this is the easiest and best book for young children to learn how to play piano and read notes.

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My 9 year old daughter just started taking piano lessons last year, so we purchased this Piano for the Young Beginner Primer A paperback book for her. Her piano teacher, who has been playing and teaching the piano for 20 years, highly recommends Bastein books for learning on. This is the only brand we will buy for our daughter since she is learning so easily with them. The book has pretty good illustrations too. These songs are easy for her to master and are helping her grow at a good pace. It took her a couple months to master all the songs. The levels of the book make it easy to figure out which book to buy next.Songs:- Two Black Cats- Marching Song- Rain Rain- Jumping Frogs- Clouds- Halloween- On the Swing- Mary's Lamb- Snow in Winter- Ducks on the Pond- Old MacDonald- At the Zoo- On the Merry-Go-Round- Turtles- Jack and Jill- The Bell Tower- My Pet- Seagulls- At the Circus- Stepping Up and Down- Hide and Seek- Hot Air Balloon- Pat-a-Cake- Boat Ride- Jogging Dogs- Night Owl- Pirates- Baseball Game- My Hobbyhorse- Jack Be Nimble- Yankee Doodle- Thanksgiving Holidays- Autumn Leaves- Our Snowman- Christmas Trees- Jolly Old Saint NicholasI'd be happy to answer any questions you might have to help you figure out if this is a book that might work for you. Thank you for taking time to read my review. If it was helpful, please click on the "yes" button below. :)

We got this piano primer book for our eight year old daughter who is just learning how to read music and play the piano. So far it has been very useful for her - and it has some interactive pages where she needs to fill in the notes or write the fingers (1-5) above the notes. She has always looked forward to her piano lessons and this was a great beginning book for her. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't have any prior knowledge of how to read music but wants to learn.

I originally bought the other bastien primer book, the pink one, for my four-year-old, and felt it was a little over her head. I didn't realize they made a primer book for younger children. This one is rated for 5-7 year olds, and it works really well for my four-year-old who is musically inclined. I would recommend this for young beginners. And if you do the red A and B primer books, you can go straight into level one without having to buy the pink primer book as well.