Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure: Tools and Techniques for Writing Better Lyrics...

Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide contains essential information on lyric structures, timing and placement, and exercises to help everyone from beginners to seasoned songwriters say things more effectively and gain a better understanding of their craft. Features examples of famous songs for study, including: Be Still My Beating Heart * Can't Fight This Feeling * It Was a Very Good Year * Tickle Me * and more. more

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Posted: Oct-19-2009

Good book... but hard read.

I think this is a great book and shows really strong points about songwriting. Personally, I love Andrea Stolpe's book a little bit more, but they both were great to have in your collection. It might take you a few reads, but you will start to see what a great teacher Pat Pattison is. Both...

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Posted: Dec-01-2008

Cannot recommend

Perhaps this workbook is somewhat effective when used in a class, less so on one's own. Pattison's writing here is weak and frequently unclear, as if he did tossed this one off too quickly. Worse, the song examples he uses are far too often poor quality lyric writing themselves. Count the...

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Posted: Sep-15-2008

Good Workbook for Songwriting Form and Structure

I've been using the techniques advanced in this workbook and found them to be effective. A good book to use while reading The Craft and Business of Songwriting.

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Posted: Mar-14-2006

have to agree with the below review

I thought the below review from 'an amazonian' was a bit negative and bought it anyway. After reading it however I have to agree with everything they stated.My advice is only get this book if you really, really struggle with lyric form and structure because otherwise you might find that you've...

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Posted: Jan-29-2006

Excellent tool

This book to great for the songwriter who needs that extra push from ok songs to great songs. Whether you are starting from scratch or revising songs already written, this book will help you see your songs with an objective eye. Not only will you write better but you'll listen better. You'll...

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Posted: Mar-04-2005

Outstanding

This book is a well written book with fresh ideas that can be very helpful to a songwriter. I would highly recommend this book to any aspiring songwriter.

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Posted: Dec-18-2002

Book Review ? James Linderman

Simply put, to know Pat's work is to revere it. He is the absolute master of the craft of lyric structure and it's consequential impact on the quality of a song. Period!Pat Pattison has been teaching lyric song writing and poetry at Berklee College of Music since 1975, and has played an integral...

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Posted: Jan-20-2002

Deeply disappointing

Pat Pattison's book on lyric structure can be recommended only to musicians who are ill at ease with words, and even they will find that the book is padded to three or four times the length it should be.Pattison's lyrics and the lyrics he quotes (by Sting and Steely Dan for example, as well as...

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