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The key to songwriting is finding and developing the right set of
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Lyric Writing Tools and Strategies brings those tools to the fore so
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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
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that rhyme scheme does…that it creates a surprise, that it creates a
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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
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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.

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Keppie Coutts
Keppie Coutts is a
performing singer-
songwriter and
passionate educator.

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Identify whether the lyric lines are Experiment with the course's timed Object

matched or unmatched in this Writing tool. After setting the timer, you'll be

interactive quiz. given a word to write about--an exercise Course Preview


that will help you connect your writing to The tools Berklee Songwriting
what you see, touch, taste, smell, and hear. professor Pat Pattison presents in
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and fresh through daily writing
exercises, and take their
songwriting up a notch. “There’s
no substitute for doing a little bit
of something every day,” says
Pattison. “And that’s what my
course asks students to do.” Read
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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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