Hello Songwriters!
This week's featured instructor is Pat Pattison. We are thrilled to have Pat as a Principal Instructor at Songwork.com.
Pat Pattison is a lyric writing and poetry professor at Berklee College of Music, where he founded the songwriting department in 1980. The Berklee Songwriting program has since become the most sought-after songwriting major in the world.
Pat has written four books:
Songwriting Without Boundaries
Writing Better Lyrics
The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure
The Essential Guide to Rhyming
Together these books create the core lyric writing curriculum at Berklee. Pat has also developed five online lyric writing courses available through Berkleemusic.com, and has written more than 30 articles for Home and Studio Recording Magazine and Performing Songwriter Magazine.
Pat presents songwriting clinics throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Several of his students have won Grammys, including John Mayer and Gillian Welch. For more information about Pat, go to patpattison.com.
Here are Pat's top picks, along with his comments about why he likes these videos...
These videos explain the fundamental principle not only behind great songwriting, but art in general.
Every song must answer these 3 questions:
1. Who is talking?
2. To whom?
3. Why?
These videos deal deal with the first 2 questions.
Maureen McMullin Masterclass
Better Way
This video examines consistency of point of view, setting issues, and phrasing adjustments.
Have a great week!
Warm regards,
Diana P.S. You can read past newsletters and check out other video recommendations on our newsletter archive page. --
Diana Korpi
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