Not only is this outstanding series of popular Christmas favorites appealing to students, it is the most pedagogically structured choice of teachers everywhere.
Bastien Popular Christmas Songs. Use the Primer Level for your beginner's first Christmas performance. Level 1 features easy piano arrangements using I, IV, and V7 chords in the keys of C, G, and F. Level 2 introduces more hand position movement. Sophisticated arrangements in a wider variety of keys are used in Levels 3 and 4.
Each level is correlated with Bastien Piano Basics or any other method at a comparable level.
Primer Level Songlist:
- Santa's Workshop
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- O Come, Little Children
- Up on the Housetop
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Away In A Manger
- Silent Night
- Joy To The World
- Jingle Bells
- Go Tell It On the Mountain
- We Three Kings
Level 1 Songlist:
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Deck the Halls
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Jingle Bells
- First Noel, The
- O Christmas Tree
- Up on the Housetop
- Good King Wenceslas
Level 2 Songlist:
- Twelve Days of Christmas, The
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Silent Night
- Joy To The World
- Go Tell It On the Mountain
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Jingle Bells
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- We Three Kings
Level 3 Songlist:
- Rockin' Along
- Snow Lay On the Ground, The
- Silent Night
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- First Noel, The
- Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella
- Joy To The World
- What Child Is This?
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Jingle Bells
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Level 4 Songlist:
- Deck the Halls
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
- Silent Night
- March Of The Three Kings
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Jingle Bells
- Fum, Fum, Fum
- Away In A Manger
- Joy To The World
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- We Three Kings