• Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting - Paperback
Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting
Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting

    Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting - Paperback

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    by Pat Pattison (Author)

    The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters

    Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics.

    Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition to more advanced techniques.Songwriters will discover:

    - How to use sense-bound imagery to enhance a song's emotional impact on listeners
    - Techniques for avoiding clich s and creating imaginative metaphors and similes
    - Ways to use repetition as an asset
    - How to successfully manipulate meter
    - Instruction for matching lyrics with music
    - Ways to build on ideas and generate effective titles
    - Advice for working with a co-writer
    - And much more

    Featuring updated and expanded chapters, 50 fun songwriting exercises, and examples from more than 20 chart-toppings songs, Writing Better Lyrics gives you all of the professional and creative insight you need to write powerful lyrics and put your songs in the spotlight where they belong.

    Author Biography

    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 BerkleeÕs 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.

    Number of Pages: 304
    Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
    Illustrated: Yes
    Publication Date: January 08, 2010
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