The Piano Improvisation Handbook

EThe Piano Improvisation HandbookE 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.