Berklee Online Blank Clinic: Pat Pattison Returns – Songwriting, Prosody and Tone of Voice

23 Replies to “Berklee Online Blank Clinic: Pat Pattison Returns – Songwriting, Prosody and Tone of Voice”

1. Holy sh*t , light dawns on my cloudy head! This singing as we talk is revolutionary! 2 years well spent Mr. Pattison… Thank you so much…

2. I did the songwriting course on Coursera. Honestly I learned something new every week and more importantly the content made a huge impact in my songwriting. I just recently started doing songwriting and that course was a gem for me. I highly recommend it to a lot of people. Pat also has a really good sense of humour!

3. Bernstein is the FATHER 😀

4. He also raises a point about lines: the words used. I wonder if modern lyric writers aim for "fracture", as opposed to earlier generation writers who wanted a more comforting effect. Let's say for comparison: a rap about "love" compared to a show tune from the 1940s about "love". The lines, the sound of the rhythm, and the way it hits your ear, is different.

5. The Professor just handed a lifelong hint to songwriters/lyric-writers, arrangers, who want attract listeners by mirroring the conversational…which is exactly what the greatest songwriters have been up to for so long.

6. 2 things:  
   Pat is a generous genius. 
   the bad hair is completely distracting.  Who did that to you, guys?

7. Hey guys please check out my music videos, I'm a big fan of Pat Pattesons lessons, and hopefully that comes through in my songs. 🙂  Check out this playlist of my songs! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ193Y2a1XQx4CxsIGDhke1StugqOfz2A

8. fascinating!! 

9. What a great teach. Thank you very much!

10. rappers use alot of alliteration

11. Best disconnect from happy music to dark lyric is: Country Joe McDonald – I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag

    Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
    Next stop is Vietnam;
    And it's five, six, seven,
    Open up the pearly gates,
    Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
    Whoopee! we're all gonna die. 

12. Just bought a couple of his books from Amazon.

13. Holy shit he should take this stuff about tonality in speech to some linguistics laboratories or something. I don't think he even knows how brilliant it is.

14. Could listen to Pro Pat Pattison all day. Now off to write some crap lol

15. Great words of wisdom Hudson, I totally agree. I have been writing songs since I was 12 year old and I think I know how to write songs… But I have recently found out that I don't exactly know HOW to write songs. But I do know that I CAN write songs. Some of them are quite well written perhaps, but the problem for me is that my songs vary alot in tonality, expression and technique. So I guess I will be spending quite some time studying these videos over the next couple of days 🙂

16. love the t-shirt <3

17. I guess there's a cultural aspect to it as well, also depending on where you grow up and the language you speak the intervals and melodies can be used in a different way and express different feelings etc. Moving around between different cultures since childhood made me realise that quite a few times. Such a great personality you are! Thank you for sharing.. 🙂

18. Wow! I can't wait to share this with my students. Go much great stuff in here! 🙂

19. Thank you so much for sharing this, Berkleemusic! This fascinating subject inspires young songwriter like me.

20. yes

21. Is there a market interested in lyricists?

22. Educational and insightful as always

23. Pat's a true treasure to songwriting. Thanks for sharing.

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