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Writing Better Lyrics (Second Edition) by Pat Pattison
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With additional song evaluations and exercises to help songwriters
hone their lyric-writing skills, Writing Better Lyrics (Second Edition) is
more comprehensive than ever before. The book features new and COURSE INFO
expanded chapters covering such topics as when the use of For-credit tuition: $1,400

repetition can be an asset; how to successfully manipulate meter; Non-credit tuition: $1,200
Add 6 CEUs: $25.00
how to work with a co-writer; how to build on ideas and generate
Credits: 3
effective titles; and, much, much more.
Duration: 12 weeks
Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and
Catalog #: BMW-120
Structure by Pat Pattison

This book will help you handle your lyric structures

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more effectively. Showing you how to take control of
your lyrics by honing your creative process, this Pat Pattison
essential guidebook reveals the secrets of how to become a naturally Author, clinician and
great lyricist. By studying examples of famous songs, you will learn Berklee Professor of
to integrate the techniques of the pros into your own lyric-writing Lyric Writing and
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craft.

Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming by Pat Shane Adams

Pattison Creative Director /
Catalog Manager for
This book has a very specific purpose: to help you Sea Gayle Music in
find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Nashville.
Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric
writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical Keppie Coutts
information necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhyme Keppie Coutts is a
performing singer-
work for you and your lyric writing will greatly improve.
songwriter and
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary by Clement Wood passionate educator.

This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference ↓ Show More Course Faculty ↓

work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to
meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths.
Included here are over 10,000 new entries--over 60,000 Course Preview
in all, sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable The tools Berklee Songwriting
rhymes. professor Pat Pattison presents in
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