Understanding and Implementing Harmony on the Piano

Harmony and real-world, practical advice on how to implement it. This book is unique in several ways: provides clear, understandable explanations of how harmony works with examples and illustrations of how one makes music on the piano by applying harmony; goes out of its way to identify all the things you need to know when it comes to playing in the real word; written with the goal of minimizing the learning curve and maximizing the absorption potential. Explanations, illustrations and exercises of all the important concepts, many of which are difficult to find elsewhere in one place and some of which cannot be found in any other written venue. A complete and accurate guide on the correct way to improvise, for example which tones to avoid which is crucial but for some reason difficult to find from other sources. Different audiences will benefit from this book: the person who wants to learn how to play piano, any musician who wants to learn how to improvise, any musician who want to learn jazz. An excellent resource especially if you find yourself unable to get past certain obstacles such as the ability to improvise. It is written in a way that you may learn both theory and implementation, or you may ignore the theory and simply refer to the charts to know which tones are appropriate to play over which chords. Lots of real-world exercises. The author makes sure there are no vague explanations. A complete course in music in these 214 pages.