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“My goal is to alert the student to the existence of various Contact Advisors
techniques that they use more or less instinctively and articulate
those techniques consciously—which turns them into tools,” says
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course author and Berklee instructor Pat Pattison, the recipient of
over forty awards in American Song Festival lyric competitions, For-credit tuition: $1,400
category winner in Music City Song Festival, and regional and Non-credit tuition: $1,200
Add 6 CEUs: $25.00
category winner in Original Song Festival. Articulating your tools, he
Credits: 3
says, allows you to open up a whole area of composition decisions,
Duration: 12 weeks
rather than letting something happen accidentally to you. In the
Catalog #: BMW-120
course, he encourages songwriters to consider tools such as line
length, balance, symmetry or asymmetrical rhymes, resolution or
lack thereof to create prosody—an appropriate relationship between
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elements.
“If, for example, I rhymed a verse ABAA—fall, run, wall, small—I Pat Pattison
might think that it’s pretty neat,” he says. “But once I articulate what Author, clinician and
Berklee Professor of
that rhyme scheme does…that it creates a surprise, that it creates a
Lyric Writing and
deception that turns a spotlight on in the last line, then you
Poetry.
recognize what its power is.” Awareness of this tool means that
songwriters are able to decide to use it when they want to turn a
Shane Adams
spotlight on, but are also able to take the principle of setting up Creative Director /
expectation, then use those expectations to surprise the listener to Catalog Manager for
other rhyme schemes and uses of line length. Sea Gayle Music in
Nashville.
matched or unmatched in this Writing tool. After setting the timer, you'll be
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Student Comments
“I loved this course. I learned
countless new skills and concepts
that are going to serve me for the
rest of my songwriting life.” - R.
Varze
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