Presents piano theory with technical and creative ideas to enhance your keyboard knowledge and improvisation skills through practical approaches and applications. To benefit most from this book, you should already be comfortable with reading notation on the grand staff and should have an understanding of written rhythms. Each step-by-step lesson has ideas to practice, which may appear in the form of exercises, suggestions, or mixed with theory, prompting you to be creative. Through these lessons, you will discover how to become a more creative player with chords in a rhythm section setting, going beyond just playing what is written on the page. You will also learn how to utilize scales in improvisation. This book has been designed to help beginners and intermediate students build a strong foundation and enlarge their horizon, and to help advanced players fill in gaps in their skills.  Includes access to online audio.                

Acknowledgements      
Altered Scale Fingerings      
Altered Scales      
Blues Scale Construction      
Blues Scale Fingerings      
Audio Selection Playlist      
Chromatic Scale and Fingerings      
Deeper Insights to Upper Structures      
Diatonic Seventh Chords      
Diminished Scale Fingerings      
Diminished Scales      
Eleventh Chords      
Exercises for Seventh Chords      
Exercises for Upper Structures      
Foreword      
Fun Improv 101      
Ideas for Chord Jamming      
Ideas for Sixth and Seventh Chords      
Intervals      
Listening Instructions for the AUDIO      
Major Scale Construction      
Major Scale Fingerings      
Major Scale Triads      
Minor Improv 101      
Minor Scale Construction      
Minor Scale Fingerings      
Minor Scale Seventh Chords      
Minor Scale Triads      
Mode Application      
Modes      
Ninth Chords      
Open Voicing for Ninth Chords      
Open Voicing for Thirteenth Chords      
Seventh Chords      
Sixth Chords      
Thirteenth Chords      
Triad Exercises      
Triad Voicing      
Triads      
Tritone Substitution      
Upper Structures      
Voicing Eleventh Chords      
Voicing Exercises for Ninths      
Voicing Seventh Chords      
Voicing Thirteenth Chords      
Whole-Tone Scale Fingerings      
Whole-tone Scales