Piano Workbook

This is a comprehensive course in playing the piano, working through from the basics of posture and music-reading to advanced harmony and performance. Newly-written exercises and pieces take the learner through each step in the process, covering styles including swing, jazz, rock, blues, and fusion, as well as classical. The book offers practical and encouraging advice on everything from practicing to chord substitution in jazz. Short profile pieces introduce key composers, performers, and styles. The professionally recorded CD provides the assistance the reader needs to master the music, while the book itself has a practical fold-flat binding for use at the piano.

Carl Humphries is the author of the bestselling Piano Handbook. He was born in London, England, in 1966, and studied piano and composition in London, Berlin, and Turin, pursuing theoretical studies at the University of Cambridge. He works as a pianist, teacher, and composer, specialising in the relationship between theory and performance. His lectures and workshops are in demand at universities and music conservatoires in European countries and in the United States, and he has performed at a number of major classical and jazz venues, as well as for television. He has written extensively on music education, contemporary music, and the philosophy of music. He lives in Bielsko-Biala in Poland.