Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice Author: Pat Pattison | Language: English | ISBN:
B006N559O8 | Format: EPUB
Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice Description
Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail!Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to:
- tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details
- effectively use metaphor and comparative language
- add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing
Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers. Contributing writers include multiple Grammy winning songwriter Gillian Welch, professional poet Caroline Harvey, a host of songwriters from the Berklee College of Music faculty, and others.
Includes foreword by professional songwriter Mike Reid ("I Can’t Make You Love Me", performed by Bonnie Raitt)
About the Author:
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 Berklee’s 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.
- File Size: 503 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: Writer's Digest Books (December 13, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006N559O8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I'm a better songwriter than I was before I took this course and used this book. Thank you, Dr. Pattson!
By By Jadaci
I picked up this book as a supplement while attending Pat Pattison's excellent (and free!) songwriting course on Coursera (I strongly recommend the course as well). In brief, the exercises Pat outlines in the book, and Pat's approach to teaching songwriting in general, represent the very best pedagogical approach to the craft that I have ever come across. Not only does he possess a deep understanding of the rhythm of language, line length, and (often-unconventional) rhyme and their often-subtle relationship to perceived meaning, but he goes further to make his understanding accessible in a practical way to the student of the craft. The weeks spent attending his course and reading his books have done far more for my writing than every other book I've read on the subject over thirty years' time, combined.
By PL
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