Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists - Softcover

Pattison, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876391501 ISBN 13: 9780876391501

Publisher: Berklee Press, 2014

Synopsis

(Berklee Press). Find better rhymes, and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhyme work for you, and your lyric writing will greatly improve. If you have written lyrics before, even at a professional level, you can still gain greater control and understanding of your craft with the exercises and worksheets included in this book. Hone your writing technique and skill with this practical and fun approach to the art of lyric writing. Start writing better than ever before! You will learn to: * Use different types of consonant and vowel sounds to improve your lyric story * Find more rhymes and choose which ones are most effective * Spotlight important ideas using rhyme The second edition of this classic songwriting text contains new strategies and insights, as well as analyses of the rhymes of Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, T.S. Eliot, and other songwriters and poets.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. Pat has written over fifty articles for various magazines and blogs and has chapters in both The Poetics of American Song Lyrics(University Press of Mississippi) and the Handbook on Creative Writing (Edinburgh University Press).?He continues to present songwriting clinics across Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Several of his students have won GRAMMY(R) Awards, including John Mayer, Gillian Welch, and Tom Hambridge.

Review:

Teaching lyric writing, or poetry can seem overly technical or even, futile. What can we really teach the next Joni Mitchell, the next Paul Simon? Pat manages to move through these murky waters, offering clarity, perspective, and his unique sense of humor. He encourages the songwriter/lyricist to relish the details, to be passionate about the craft so that inspiration hovering, near weightless, like a bird has a safe place to land! --Marcus Hummon (Grammy®-winning hit songwriter, artist, and producer)

Pat Pattison does the impossible: he takes the mystery out of songwriting without taking the heart out of it. His book will help you write more compelling songs. No more rhymes that wag the dog! Pat Pattison shows you where to look when you think you have looked everywhere for the right word to sing what you need to say. This book contains inside information that would take a songwriter decades to glean intuitively. But here it is, beautifully organized and accessible. Thanks Pat. --David Wilcox (Songwriter and recording artist with nineteen albums to his credit)

I love words, and I love writing songs. So does Pat Pattison. He spells it all out for you right here. He takes you deep inside the lyric process. If you want to learn how to write songs, or you write songs but want to write better songs, you should read this book. --Tom Hambridge (Grammy®-winning singer, songwriter, and producer)

About this edition

• Publisher: Berklee Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0876391501
• ISBN 13: 9780876391501
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136