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Berklee Online hosted an online Open House with instructor Pat Pattison on March 24th.

Pat Pattison is an author, clinician, and one of the most renowned songwriting teachers in the world. He created the first-ever Songwriting major at Berklee College of Music, and brought that curriculum online with Berklee Online, writing and teaching Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies, Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title, and Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music.

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23 Replies to “Berklee Online Lyric Writing Clinic: Pat Pattison”

  1. I’d love to have John Mayer listen to this analysis of his song and ask him
    if he was thinking about that as he wrote the lyrics. Often we hear
    analyses of how songs where created and then the composer explains away
    things like “I just couldnt find a word that rhymed…”, or “it was just a
    line I saw on the newspaper on the table”… :-)?

  4. 1st of all you have to scan your lyrics to all of your emails.Make copies
    and put them in diff spots for backups.Google vocab rhyming words with the
    meaning and print.Google will help pronounce the words.write your lyrics
    soon as it comes to mind the sooner is the best.i got a sony voice
    recorder i say it to the recorder cause it’s faster then write them in all
    of my notebooks.I write the numbers down to keep track.?

  8. Songwriting does have rules, as long as inspiration is not enough. When
    Beatles wrote for example the song “I’m only sleeping” or “Let it be” or
    when Willie Dixon wrote “Hoochie Coochie man”, I don’t think they had so
    many rules on their heads… Those instructions are undoubtely useful, but
    not a pre-requisite to write songs. ?

  12. I think what he was saying is thats where you should start but this type of
    method he describes sounds like it’s a way to bring your lyrics to the next
    level. The part where he talked about lyrical movement was very informative
    in my opinion.

  14. Just put Pat’s ‘tools’ to use and it worked! I’ve had a song that I haven’t
    been able to finish for months but within 10 mins of watching this vid I’ve
    finished it! Its daring to play about with rhyme schemes and can make songs
    sound odd at first but actually they take on another dimension that I’ve
    never really explored before but will be from now on. THANKS, PAT!!!!!!

  15. then you mainly write songs for yourself, wich is fine, if that’s what you
    want. i’d like to think about ‘who am I talking to?’ when i write a song
    and when i perform I like to give people a great feeling, an emotion, a
    good time, I feel released when I can touch an audience. When i play it on
    my own it’s merely practice, no more.

  20. that was a wonderful presentation, especially the part about composing the
    melody around the flow of the words and not being afraid of writing crap, I
    guess that is my biggest problem with writing lyrics.

  23. Pat Pattison, you are bloody amazing and brilliant. I don’t understand
    everything yet, but at least you’ve opened up my imagery and imagination
    again which I thought was deaed as I had too many mind blocks. Thankyou so
    very much! I thought what I wrote was crap, but now I am going to enjoy
    writing it because I know, somewhere deep inside myself, it is brilliant!
    God bless you xxxxxxX

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