Technic. Bastien Piano Basics. Technique. Piano studies book. With introductory text, easy piano notation, fingerings and illustrations. 32 pages. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (WP217). Technic is the Bastien Piano Basics technic development series. Use the practical warm-up exercises to start lessons and practice sessions. Original works by James Bastien, and graded etudes by masters such as Schmitt, Czerny, Hanon, and Lemoine reinforce technic. Each page is carefully correlated with Piano, Performance, and Theory. Your students will develop dependable technic from the very beginning. Level 2 includes technic exercises correlated with Piano.