Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice
Dec 2011 · Penguin
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Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail!
Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to:
• tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details
• effectively use metaphor and comparative language
• add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing
Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.
Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to:
• tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details
• effectively use metaphor and comparative language
• add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing
Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.
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October 11, 2022
This will be my 2nd book from Pat. On Object writting "Turn Down the Lights, Turn Down the Bed" struck a chord. When playing guitar in a nice club when younger a patron gave me his card and said I should come by the studio. I didn't and a year later when looking for the lyrics to a Bonnie Raitt song, I flipped the álbum cover over and the first thing I saw was the patrons face. His name was Fritz Richmond and he was Bonnie Raitts' recording engineer.Maybe there's a song in this story. It's true, sad,but true.I really enjoyed Pats first book on Lyric Writting with great examples on developing and evolving a song. So I'm leaving this post now to purchase this second book which I know will be great. As a guitarist I have always written songs,but Pats books help you brìng them to life in ways that allows the listener to visualize the lyrics into a movie.Great Job Pat :-)
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About the author
Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry. His books include Writing Better Lyrics, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, and The Essential Guide to Rhyming. In addition, Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses for Berklee’s online school, and has written articles for a variety of industry publications. His internationally successful students include multiple Grammy winners John Mayer and Gillian Welch. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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