Songwriting Essentials with Pat Pattison, Lyric Writing and Poetry Professor at Berklee College of Music.
Having had a longstanding association with JMC, we are thrilled again to be hosting Pat Pattison for an online masterclass for all of our students interested in improving their songwriting, and learning from a master songwriting teacher. Pat is no stranger to many of our songwriting students, with his books and instructional videos being a part of our courses now – and with Pat being a mentor for many of our songwriting teachers.
Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. In addition to his four books, Songwriting Without Boundaries (Penguin/Random House), Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition (Penguin/Random House, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure (Hal Leonard), and The Essential Guide to Rhyming (Hal Leonard), Pat has developed five online courses for Berklee Online: three on lyric writing, one on poetry, and one on creative writing, all available through online.berklee.edu.
In addition, more than 1,500,000 students have enrolled in his coursera.org MOOC “Songwriting: Writing the Lyric” since its first run in 2013. He has written over fifty articles for various blogs and magazines, including American Songwriter, and has chapters in both The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (University Press of Mississippi) and the Handbook on Creative Writing (Edinburgh University Press).
Pat continues to present songwriting clinics across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Pat’s students include Grammy-winners, professional songwriters, and major recording artists, including Gillian Welch, John Mayer, Tom Hambridge, Joelle James, Karmin, Liz Longley, Charlie Worsham, Greg Becker, Justin Tranter, and many more.
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Thank you both for so many useful tips to improve my songwriting menagerie ??
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1:29 change the chords at least for the chorus and add some syncopation
That Chris guy is funny…great intro and respect to acknowledgment and reminder of who's land we are fortunate to come to and plant our seeds!!
Great video he’s amazing!
Two people in 10,000 make a living from music – from music only.( .00002 % ) Check Ralph Murphy's outlook and insight on the business side. Or find out first hand. Skin on, or skin off.
This was great!!!! I LOVE this mans way of presenting wisdom with wit and humor.
Common sense delivery, while layering in the technical, the tools and the examples is so helpful for me. It helps to better visualize a path through the writing journey.
I wish that interviewer would pay some proper respect and take his head off his hand. Very rude, lousy, inconsiderate hosting.
Pat your a legend. I always get break through moments with your wisdoms ?
hey you!good things take time to keep going guys.you will find your treasure
Hi. 🙂 It's a pleasure meeting you. <3 Please, let us pray together. Dear God who art in heaven, hallow be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever in Jesus Christ's name we pray amen.
1.5m people have taken his online course(s). Damn that's a lot of dreamers.
Thanks For The Alpha Pat
All of these drifting "uhh, uhhhs" ?? god stfu, but keep talkin.
This was great!! Thank you so much <3
This goes on for about 2 hours so its a lot to take in. maybe need to listen to a few times.
Great session. Thanks for the upload @JMCAcademy. I'll be revisiting a lot of my lyrics in light of these ideas.
What's the difference between First Person and Direct Address?
How I would answer the girl that said she wants to write without it reminding her of the person she lost. I was in that situation when my son died. Writing is always therapeutic whether is it regular writing, poems, or songs. The first song I ever wrote was about heaven. And I wrote some poems about grief. Writing helps you get all the "stuff" to stop running in you head. You can leave it on the paper, and go on with your life. It isn't easy so you have to keep talking about it and writing in a journal about it, and eventually you will go on with your life and the person will be a lovely memory for you. Put it on paper, so you can leave it behind and be able to write another song, about another subject.
seriously brilliant. thank you for making this public
I came to this to get tips from Pat Pattison. Not to get the kind of woke invocation and political rhetoric presented in your introduction. Your virtue signalling self righteous speech at the beginning has made me switch off and I will just go read his book. I am sure you will be fine with that, but hey maybe one day you will realise the real damage you are inflicting on the world. I doubt it, but I can hope.