The world has been created with order and uniformity. Grass and trees grow. Rain and snowflakes fall.

Yet in amongst this orderliness there is variety and creativity. No two snowflakes are alike. A row of trees appear to be identical, but they are not.

And great music has form and order with variety. This is what makes it great.

Therefore, in teaching students to write music, one of the objectives is to have them learn patterns that create unity and diversity.

In Lesson three, one of the exercises was for students to copy note patters of three notes C-D-E.

But what happens to the variety by adding one more note? Just how many options are there in a group of four notes?

There is a worksheet entitled Note Patterns 1. Click on the link and print the lesson material. OR, you can right-click and then click “Save As ” and save the file to your own computer.

Then have your student practice the exercises. There is, of course, a lot more than I have put in this. Print additional manuscript paper and have your student create additional patters of the four notes.