Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice

Pattison, Pat

ISBN 10: 1599632977 / ISBN 13: 9781599632971

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

About this Item

Pages are clean with normal wear. May have limited markings & or highlighting within pages & or cover. May have some wear & creases on the cover. The spine may also have minor wear. May not include CD DVD, access code or any other supplemental materials.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599632977
• ISBN 13: 9781599632971
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail! Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to: tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid detailseffectively use metaphor and comparative languageadd rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.

About the Author

Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. His books include Writing Better Lyrics, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, and The Essential Guide to Rhyming. In addition, Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses for Berkleeā€™s online school, and has written articles for a variety of industry publications. His internationally successful students include multiple Grammy winners John Mayer and Gillian Welch. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.