Lesson Objective 

Your first steps into improvisation and song composition will involve learning about anchor patterns. The object is to create confidence in the child and parent to be creative on the piano. In the Akousunesis Method, exercises become a foundation for creativity. You'll always be encouraged to go beyond the exercise inventing your own interval pattern combinations.  Use the finger placement exercise as your anchor pattern, veering off before coming back to the original anchor pattern, this will be explained in more detail in the YouTube video above. Anchor patterns are very common in musical compositions, they create familiarity for a melody, they can be as simply as a single note or a melodic line.

Anchor Pattern 1

The symbol == means to play each interval together, play the chord C, holding down the notes until you finishing playing the top pattern. The symbol >< means you rise and fall, and the symbol || mean you play both hands together.

C >< || RT1 M3 P5

C ==    LP1 M3 T5

Anchor Pattern 2

 The symbol == means to play each interval together, play the chord C, holding down the notes until you finishing playing the top pattern. The symbol >< means you rise and fall, and the symbol || mean you play both hands together.

C >< || RT1 M3 R4 P5

C ==    LP1 M3 T5

Anchor Pattern 3

 The symbol == means to play each interval together, play the chord C, holding down the notes until you finishing playing the top pattern. The symbol >< means you rise and fall, and the symbol || mean you play both hands together.

C >< || RT1 I2 R4

C ==    LP1 M3 T5

Anchor Pattern 4

 The symbol == means to play each interval together, play the chord C, holding down the notes until you finishing playing the top pattern. The symbol >< means you rise and fall, and the symbol || mean you play both hands together.

C > || RT1 I2 R4 <M3 >P5 <T1

C ==   LP1 M3 T5