Pattern Play offers students of all ages and levels an opportunity to create, explore, and enjoy making music. Six progressive volumes provide a sequential collection of the patterns from which music is made. By playing with these patterns, students will learn to improvise and compose music in a wide variety of styles, including classical, jazz, and popular! This intuitive approach to improvisation gives students a solid foundation in musicality and theory, making it an ideal complement to traditional piano study.
Pattern Play 1 explores world-music, classical, and popular styles, and introduces improvisation on all black and all white keys, major, minor, and blues scales, intervals, and triads.
The other books in the series and the Chord Play series by Kinney are also available.
