"You have to throw away your fear. You have to write fearlessly. You have to understand that 90% of everything that you write is not your best 10%." - Pat Pattison
Pat Pattison is an author, clinician, and one of the most renowned songwriting teachers in the world. He created the first-ever Songwriting major at Berklee College of Music, and brought that curriculum online with Berkleemusic, writing and teaching Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies, Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title, and Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music.
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Part 1: Teaching Songwriting Online
"You have to identify the various muscles that you need to construct a great song and work on them individually."
Part 2: Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies
"The tools that you need to write a good song cover your whole person. You need to bring who you are and what you know to the table."
Part 3: Writing Lyrics to Music
"It's about the appropriate relationship between notes and syllables, and musical phrases and lyric phrases."
Part 4: Writing From the Title
"The title is such an efficient place to start writing. It gives you the DNA of a song."
Part 5: Writing Fearlessly
"You have to throw away your fear. You have to understand that 90% of everything that you write is not your best 10%."
Part 6: The Best of Berklee Online
"Berklee is legendary for a reason: the quality of the content here. And now you can take it online."
