Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide To Rhyming – 2nd Edition
Improve your songwriting technique with this practical and fun guide to the art of lyric writing from Berklee College of Music songwriting tutor Pat Pattison . 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. In the Essential Guide To Rhyming you will be shown how to 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. 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.
