This book is the right choice for anyone who wants to learn how to accompany songs spontaneously and confidently. It teaches people with basic piano and music skills how to harmonize melodies and how to read and utilize given chords. It covers common accompaniment models and provides tips on how to make the right choices.

From the beginning, students benefit from a recurring, clear sequence of small learning steps that are applied first to very simple and later to more challenging harmonic progressions in melodies of different genres. Excursions into pop harmony, organizing recitals, and an appendix with practice songs round off this book.

Jens Kratzenberg is a lecturer for practical piano playing at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and a music teacher at a school for general education.