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With additional song evaluations and exercises to help songwriters hone their lyric-writing skills, "Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition" is more comprehensive than ever before.
The book features new and expanded chapters covering such topics as:
- How to use sense-bound imagery to enhance a song's emotional impact on listeners.
- Techniques for avoiding cliches 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.
Featuring updated and expanded chapters, 50 fun songwriting exercises, and examples from more than 20 chart-topping songs and so much more.
About the Author
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. His former students include Grammy winners John Mayer, Gillian Welch, and Rob Hotchkiss (Train).
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Pat Pattison's book, WRITING BETTER LYRICS, was a great foundational tool for me as amateur song writer. It focussed on the writing process by leading me through various professional song examples--from rough draft to polished form-- while providing exercises to focus my own writing. Great book for the aspiring amateur and fresh inspiration for the experienced veteran.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book when I decided to use song lyrics to teach poetry concepts to my eighth-grade English class. Writing Better Lyrics is an excellent blend of basic lyric theory and helpful writing activities. Pattison illustrates his concepts with examples from great poets as well as contemporary lyricists, and he is not afraid to discuss the poetic mechanics of the lyricist's craft. I highly recommend this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is excellent -- it is very informative and very well written. Also, it has lots of exercises that make you apply the techniques. I am a music student in San Francisco (Blue Bear School of American Music) and really got good value from this book.
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Writing better lyrics
Pat pattison is a great teacher. He can be seen on youtube teaching one of his classes. Will give you an insight into his style. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jay
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This book was the first I ever read about writing lyrics, and it opened up a whole new world for me. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Alkiviadis D. Kanidis
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Some people have never written a line in their lives and they may want to give it a go. Others have been writing lyrics for fun, for their friends, and they think they could do... Read more
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