Description

Inspiring Creativity at the Piano
Composers: Akiko and Forrest Kinney
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano
Level: Preparatory to Associate Diploma
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.
Table of Contents

• Reflecting
• Simplicity
• World Piece
• Flow
• Africa
• Canon in D (in C)
• Too Late Blues
• No Limits
• Ireland
• Blues on Black