The Piano Improvisation Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the practical skills and theoretical issues involved in mastering all forms of piano improvisation, including classical, jazz, rock and blues. Whereas most books offer little more than models for imitation and exercises for practicing, this one adopts an approach specifically designed to encourage and enable independent creative exploration. The book contains a series of graded tutorial sections with musical examples on CD, as well as an appendix listing useful scales, chords, voicings, and progressions across all keys, a bibliography, and a discography. In addition to sections outlining how melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form work in improvised piano music, giving distinctive emphasis to the interconnectedness of classical and jazz improvisation, there are sections devoted to explaining how ideas can be developed into continuous music and to exploring the process of finding a personal style.

The Piano Improvisation Handbook

Humphries, Carl

Humor & Entertainment

BACKBEAT UK

A companion to the bestselling Piano Handbook, this is a comprehensive practical course in modern piano playing, teaching the basics of posture and music reading through advanced technique and interpretation. It also covers using the piano in performance, improvisation, songwriting and composition and can be used either alongside the earlier volume or as an entirely separate course. The accompanying CD features 58 tracks of exercises and pieces. Hardcover with concealed spiral-binding.

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