Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (789 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00L7VLVAY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 453 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Hone your writing technique and skill with this practical and fun approach to the art of lyric writing. Start writing better than ever before! You will learn to: Use different types of consonant and vowel sounds to improve your lyric story * Find more rhymes and choose which ones are most effective * Spotlight important ideas using rhyme. Find better rhymes, and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. If you have written lyrics before, even at a professional level, you can still gain greater control and understanding of your craft with the exercises and worksheets included in this book. The second edition of this classic songwriting text contains new strategies and insights, as well as analyses of the rhymes of Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, T.S. Eliot, and other songwriters and poets.. Make rhyme work for you, and your lyric writing will greatly improve. (Berklee Press)
He encourages the songwriter/lyricist to relish the details, to be passionate about the craft so that inspiration hovering, near weightless, like a bird has a safe place to land! --Marcus Hummon (Grammy®-winning hit songwriter, artist, and producer)Pat Pattison does the impossible: he takes the mystery out of songwriting without taking the heart out of it. If you want to learn how to write songs, or you write songs but want to write better songs, you should read this book. --David Wilcox (Songwriter and recording artist with nineteen albums to his credit)I love words, and I love writing songs. No more rhymes that wag the dog! Pat Pattison shows you where to look when you think you have looked everywhere for the right word to sing what you need to say. His book will help you write more compelling songs. What can we really teach the next Joni Mitchell
You'll Learn a LOT regardless of your level. light I have been a songwriter for more than 12 years and this is an excellent book! It was challenging and I learned a ton, even after all of this time. It's more of a workbook than a read along book, so I learned so much more. The thing to do is to buy this book and then use it while doing his free coursera class, because this book covers the same stuff, but it MUCH GREATER DETAIL. It offers plenty of practice.The one downside I'd say is that there is no way to check your work, so with some of the material I did it, but I'm not 100% sure that I did it correctly. Either way, I still learned a got a lot from it.. A Book For Those Who Are Serious About Lyric Writing robert Why would you need a 123 page book on how to rhyme? We all know June - spoon - moon - tune and love - above - dove, don't we?This book requires study and practice. No one is going to skim through this book and immediately become a better songwriter. But the effort is worth it.Pattison goes way beyond the perfect rhyme, so often used by the old school lyricists who wrote for Broadway musicals. He shows how to find and use the perfect, family, additive, subtractive, consonance and assonance rhymes of a given word. Once you develop the habit of systematically finding all of the possible perfect and less-than-perfect rhymes, you. Brilliant resource. It's systematized and methodological like a theory Tom S Brilliant resource. It's systematized and methodological like a theory book, but it's written in very plain and easy language with a barrage of helpful examples. Please note--plain and easy language doesn't mean you can skim it and understand it. You have to think about what he is saying and do the examples yourself to really learn from this. He doesn't just give examples of using rhymes effectively, but he also provides examples of the process of researching and crafting rhymes, and making decisions about lyric writing. He has a great blog, too. Google it.
Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. Pat has written over fifty articles for various magazines and blogs and has chapters in both The Poetics of American Song Lyrics(University Press of Mississippi) and the Handbook on Creative Writing (Edinburgh University Press).?He continues to present songwriting clinics across E