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📖 "Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy

📖 "Music does not excite until it is performed."
Benjamin Britten

📖 "Men profess to be lovers of music but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted."
Thoreau Journal

📖 "Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul Titan (1800-3)

📖 “Those persons who begin late or who have been badly taught, will need attention, as the muscles will perhaps be hardened, or perhaps they have acquired bad habits. Before sitting down at the harpsichord, they should loosen or have their fingers loosened by someone; … so that besides an understanding of movement, they will have greater freedom of movement."
"Les personnes qui commencent tard, ou qui ont été mal-montrées feront attention que comme les nerfs peuvent être endurcis, ou peuvent avoir pris de mauvais plis, elles doivent Se dénoüer, ou se faire dénoüer Les doigts par quelqu'un, avant que de Se méttre au clavecin; … cela met d'ailleurs les Esprits en mouvement; et l'on Se trouve plus de liberté."
François Couperin L'art de toucher le clavecin (1716)

📖 "Music is the medicine of a troubled mind."
Walter Haddon Lucubrationes Poemata 'Music' (1567)

📖 "Music,
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile."
John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee oedipus (1692), set to music by Purcell

📖 "Music can noble hints imparts
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art."
Joseph Addison

📖 "Music alone with sudden charms can bind
The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind."
William Congreve Hymn to Harmony

📖 "Music does not lie to the feelings."
Franz Liszt

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Beginners Learn Piano - Materials for Adults - Bastien

The Bastien method for adult beginners is very logical and includes various types of music. It's good for learning notes and basic patterns but needs to be supplemented with technical exercises and sight-reading materials to make sense more holistically.

Pupils learn quickly and enjoy their musical explorations with these books.

Level 1

Level 1 introduces the most basic concepts furnished with theory exercises and pieces to play. Music notation is learnt through positions and basic sequences of chords.

📚 Bastien Piano for Adults Book 1

📚 EXTRA - Kowalchyk & Lancaster / Alfred Publishing - Pre-Reading Book of Favorites: 40 Arrangements for Beginning Pianists

📚 Easy Piano Classics (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

📚 Classic Themes by the Masters Arranged for Piano (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

📚 Favorite Melodies the World Over Level 1 (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

📚 Religious Favorites (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

📚 Music Flash Cards - Set A: Hal Leonard Student Piano Library

Level 2

Level 2 expands the positions, keys and patterns already learnt with level 1 books and gradually brings players out from the confinements of position playing.

📚 Bastien Piano for Adults Book 2

📚 Easy Piano Classics (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

📚 Classic Themes by the Masters Arranged for Piano (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

📚 Religious Favorites (The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library)

Some Recording's of Pupils

Juan at Steinway Hall London, Marylebone