Pattern Proficiency
This training will break down key principles and techniques essential to getting the most out of the “Pattern Paradise” program, which covers Pattern Proficiency concepts. While notes create scales... scales create chords... and chords create patterns --- it is patterns that create the music you hear every day. Mastery of patterns is the most important skill you can attain as an ear-musician who plays without sheet music. Understand patterns and you would’ve unlocked the door to music. And that’s precisely what we’ll cover in this training!
Why should we understand patterns?
1) It’s easier to learn songs using patterns versus chord-by-chord
If you train your ear to hear 2, 3, 4, or 5 chords at a time, you won’t have to spend time approaching each chord individually. And because most songs follow predictable, organized patterns, you’ll find that you won’t even have to learn anything new over time. Soon, the same patterns will be appearing over and over again in song after song.
2) You’ll be able to play in all 12 keys a lot faster
If you’re looking at a string of chords as “6-2-5-1” in the key of C major rather than an “A minor” going to a “D minor” ... going to a “G major”... going to a “C major,” you’ll be at more of an advantage. By doing the latter, you’re trapping yourself in the key of C major. By grouping these chords together, numbering them (according to the scale), and looking at them as one long chain, you’ve just freed yourself up to take this chord to any key instantly (assuming you know your “numbers” in all 12 keys and the equivalent chords)
3) You can compose your own music
If you understand the patterns that govern most songs, what’s stopping you from putting them to work for you in your own original music? Nothing! Simply do what every other modern composer does and borrow from the same pool of patterns everyone else uses. No need to reinvent the wheel once you literally understand the “WHEEL” (i.e. – the “circle of fifths”). Don’t worry! We’ll talk about it later on in this section.
4) You'll be able to explore playing outside of the box and adding beautiful color to your music.
1) It’s easier to learn songs using patterns versus chord-by-chord
If you train your ear to hear 2, 3, 4, or 5 chords at a time, you won’t have to spend time approaching each chord individually. And because most songs follow predictable, organized patterns, you’ll find that you won’t even have to learn anything new over time. Soon, the same patterns will be appearing over and over again in song after song.
2) You’ll be able to play in all 12 keys a lot faster
If you’re looking at a string of chords as “6-2-5-1” in the key of C major rather than an “A minor” going to a “D minor” ... going to a “G major”... going to a “C major,” you’ll be at more of an advantage. By doing the latter, you’re trapping yourself in the key of C major. By grouping these chords together, numbering them (according to the scale), and looking at them as one long chain, you’ve just freed yourself up to take this chord to any key instantly (assuming you know your “numbers” in all 12 keys and the equivalent chords)
3) You can compose your own music
If you understand the patterns that govern most songs, what’s stopping you from putting them to work for you in your own original music? Nothing! Simply do what every other modern composer does and borrow from the same pool of patterns everyone else uses. No need to reinvent the wheel once you literally understand the “WHEEL” (i.e. – the “circle of fifths”). Don’t worry! We’ll talk about it later on in this section.
4) You'll be able to explore playing outside of the box and adding beautiful color to your music.