Music, Songwriting

Writing Better Lyrics

Name: Writing Better Lyrics
Author: Pat Pattison
ISBN: 9781582975771

by Pat Pattison

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Synopsis

Learn to examine 17 extraordinary songs to discover what makes them so effective, work through more than 30 exercises to use language masterfully, use a rhyming dictionary and thesaurus to generate ideas, and more.

About the Author, Pat Pattison

Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. His books Writing Better Lyrics, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, and The Essential Guide to Rhyming are considered definitive in their genre and have earned many ecstatic reviews. In addition, Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses for Berklee's online school, available through patpattison.com. Pat has written more than 30 articles for Home & Studio Recording Magazine, The Performing Songwriter and a variety of other industry publications, and he continues to present songwriting clinics across the globe. His internationally successful students include Grammy winners John Mayer, Gillian Welch and Rob Hotchkiss (Train). His website is: http://patpattison.com.