Helbling Verlag Liedbegleitung und Klavierimprovisation

This innovative textbook and workbook helps you discover how to improvise and how to practice this step by step in a concrete and structured way. The basic elements of song accompaniment are learned: various rhythm and style patterns, chord symbols, melody harmonisation and finally the merging of melody playing and accompaniment. New music theory contents, which appear in each chapter, are immediately put into practice.

The course is suitable for self-study as well as for group and individual lessons. It is aimed at piano players who want to learn improvising accompaniment and can also be used for lessons in practical piano playing in schools as well as for group courses in music schools and colleges. Both amateurs and professionally trained musicians receive valuable impulses. Basic knowledge of piano playing and music theory should be available to make the most of this textbook.

On the enclosed CD all exercises and accompaniment patterns are recorded, partly with piano, partly with band - so you get a precise and descriptive impression of the respective style. The motivating band-playbacks are suitable for improvisational playing and support the learning process.

Content:

• Exercises for rhythm and independence of the hands
• Chords and cadences
• Accompanying patterns and chord connections
• Improvising over chord sequences
• Accompanying styles (Tango, Country, Cha-Cha- Cha, Swing, Slow Rock, Disco, Bossa Nova, Samba, Blues and others)
• Harmonizing melodies