Pattern Play: Create your Own Music, Vol. 2 - Melody, All Keys

The first Pattern Play book explored ways to create in the easiest keys. With this book, Volume Two, you can travel into all of the major and minor keys.

Each key expresses what others cannot: some are midnight, others are dawn. Some are flowing rivers, others are restless fires. Keys are aptly named because each one unlocks different doors of feeling and imagination.

Each of the 105 pieces in this book offers a new road to travel, a different way to create, a distinct mood and style. With pieces such as Ireland, Dangerous Tango, Exception Blues, Black Pearl, and Rhapsody, you can explore diverse sounds and feelings.

This book is a treasury of the author's favorite musical patterns over the past thirty years of teaching. The book is made with high-quality paper and a lay-flat binding, and is meant to be a travel companion for a lifetime of exploration.

Forrest Kinney began studying classical piano at fifteen, composing at sixteen, and teaching at seventeen. Since then, he has made his living as a pianist and as an educator devoted to discovering what is unique in his students.

Forrest is the composer and author of the Pattern Play series (patternplay.com), books that allow pianists to create their own music in diverse styles. He is also the author of Creativity Beyond Compare, a book about the lost nature of art that took eighteen years to finish. With his wife, Akiko, Forrest regularly gives workshops on creativity for music teachers and their students in the United States and Canada.

He is currently patenting a pocket-sized device that will allow users to type all the letters of a word at once, making typing words like playing chords on a piano. This will finally make it possible to write at the speed of speech.