Pattern Song
2000s-present · New York
Also known as Musical Pattern Game
Two improvisers build a song by establishing a pattern (rhyme scheme, melodic hook, repeated phrase) and then heightening it verse by verse.
Known for
- Musical implementation of Game of the Scene — find the pattern, repeat it, raise the stakes.
- Key drill in Armadillo Lab and Magnet musical improv curricula.
- First verse establishes, second verse heightens, third verse breaks or lands.
- Teaches musicians and non-musicians that musical improv is built on the same logic as scene improv.
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musical improv
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