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Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists Paperback – April 1, 2014

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(Berklee Press). Find better rhymes, and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhyme work for you, and your lyric writing will greatly improve. If you have written lyrics before, even at a professional level, you can still gain greater control and understanding of your craft with the exercises and worksheets included in this book. Hone your writing technique and skill with this practical and fun approach to the art of lyric writing. Start writing better than ever before! You will learn to: * Use different types of consonant and vowel sounds to improve your lyric story * Find more rhymes and choose which ones are most effective * Spotlight important ideas using rhyme The second edition of this classic songwriting text contains new strategies and insights, as well as analyses of the rhymes of Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, T.S. Eliot, and other songwriters and poets.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berklee Press; 2nd edition (April 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0876391501
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0876391501
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.32 x 11 inches

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Pat Pattison is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches Lyric Writing and Poetry.

In addition to his three books, Writing Better Lyrics, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, and The Essential Guide to Rhyming, Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses, available through Berklee's Online School. He has written over 30 articles for Home & Studio Recording Magazine, and Performing Songwriter.

Pat continues to present songwriting clinics across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Several of his students have won Grammys, including John Mayer and Gillian Welch.

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robert

A Book For Those Who Are Serious About Lyric Writing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 10, 2015

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Why would you need a 123 page book on how to rhyme? We all know June - spoon - moon - tune and love - above - dove, don't we?

This book requires study and practice. No one is going to skim through this book and immediately become a better songwriter. But the effort is worth it.

Pattison goes way beyond the perfect rhyme, so often used by the old school lyricists who wrote for Broadway musicals. He shows how to find and use the perfect, family, additive, subtractive, consonance and assonance rhymes of a given word. Once you develop the habit of systematically finding all of the possible perfect and less-than-perfect rhymes, you will be a better lyric writer. But it requires study and practice. Spend a month or two with this book and do the exercises. The process gets easier the more you do it.

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You'll Learn a LOT regardless of your level.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2015

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I have been a songwriter for more than 12 years and this is an excellent book! It was challenging and I learned a ton, even after all of this time. It's more of a workbook than a read along book, so I learned so much more. The thing to do is to buy this book and then use it while doing his free coursera class, because this book covers the same stuff, but it MUCH GREATER DETAIL. It offers plenty of practice.

The one downside I'd say is that there is no way to check your work, so with some of the material I did it, but I'm not 100% sure that I did it correctly. Either way, I still learned a got a lot from it.

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Tom S

Brilliant resource. It's systematized and methodological like a theory ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 9, 2016

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Brilliant resource. It's systematized and methodological like a theory book, but it's written in very plain and easy language with a barrage of helpful examples. Please note--plain and easy language doesn't mean you can skim it and understand it. You have to think about what he is saying and do the examples yourself to really learn from this. He doesn't just give examples of using rhymes effectively, but he also provides examples of the process of researching and crafting rhymes, and making decisions about lyric writing. He has a great blog, too. Google it.

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Highly recommended!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2021

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all you need to know about songwriting rhyming....Lots of useful exercises that teach you how to apply the rhyming methods

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Michael A. Floyd

Solid information about rhymes.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2014

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This is a very technical book, that will give you a deeper understanding of rhymes, some times the technical stuff gets a little dry but it's worth pushing through that to be able to use the tools it offers some one that is trying to get better at anything. I highly recommend this book. I'm only a third the way through this book, and taking my time to absorb, not a fast read.

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Snake Boy

I was very happy with them and felt like they were well worth ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2016

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Bought all 4 of Pat's books and have been slowly working through them. I will probably work through them more than once. Lots of info, examples, guides and some exercises. I was very happy with them and felt like they were well worth the price. I've been very inspired after working through some of the info and putting it into practice.

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ashok b.

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2019

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I like the ideas expressed in the book and the fact that it makes you think of different aspects while writing lyrics.

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Kelonie U

Gorgeous Book for all writers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2017

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I use this book with my music college courses and I have to say the book is very detailed. This book really has helped my writing and I would recommend this anyone.

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Alex M

I am pleased I purchased it as it has already improved my ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 14, 2014

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I am still reading this book but it is so far impressive in its presentation and the thinking behind what it tells you. I am pleased I purchased it as it has already improved my perception of writing lyrics.

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Blue Sam

A useful songwriting tool

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 22, 2016

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This book both educated and inspired me. It won't teach you how to write a song but it will show you a method for finding rhymes. You will need to buy a rhyming dictionary if you want to get the most out of this guide.

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Luckyman

I'm a published songwriter and there's stuff in the first ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 23, 2015

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I'm a published songwriter and there's stuff in the first few pages that I'd never even considered! He really lays his approach out in a clear fashion that I'm finding very helpful.

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Eric Petterson

Lots of useful tools and ideas presented clearly with many examples to ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 14, 2017

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Pat's ideas and presentations in this book were very revealing for me. I write poetry with full rhymes; he shows how many other kinds of rhyming approaches make practical sense, as tools to achieve a sense of, leading the reader/listener on, or to a place of closure or completion, in a poem or song.
He also explains how phrase lengths and rhyme types are used, so that lyrics can be matched to music. Or, perhaps putting words to music, if that has been created first or simultaneously.
Lots of useful tools and ideas presented clearly with many examples to demonstrate his points.
Very useful book.

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Jevgenij Podskokov

Great workbook!

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on December 16, 2014

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I love the work of Mr. Pat Pattison! His books never disappoint me, because they help me to see my works from a new angle. I definitely recommend this book :)

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