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Summary: Great insight to improving your lyrics.
Review: Pat Pattison's book, WRITING BETTER LYRICS, was a great foundational tool for me as amateur song writer. It focussed on the writing process by leading me through various professional song examples--from rough draft to polished form-- while providing exercises to focus my own writing. Great book for the aspiring amateur and fresh inspiration for the experienced veteran.
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Summary: Excellent discussion and demostration of writing process
Review: Pat Pattison's book, WRITING BETTER LYRICS, was a great foundational tool for me as amateur song writer. It focussed on the writing process by leading me through various professional song examples--from rough draft to polished form-- while providing exercises to focus my own writing. Great book for the aspiring amateur and fresh inspiration for the experienced veteran.
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Summary: Great insight to improving your lyrics.
Review: This book is excellent -- it is very informative and very well written. Also, it has lots of exercises that make you apply the techniques. I am a music student in San Francisco (Blue Bear School of American Music) and really got good value from this book.
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Summary: Pretty Good...!
Review: This should NOT be your first lyric writing source. There are hundreds of books that describe rhyme, structure, and all that. (Sheila Davis, Jason Blume, IDIOT'S and DUMMIES's quickly come to mind when I recommend books for beginners.) No. This book is for writers who know the basics and want to GRADUATE beyond the elementary-secondary level. If you only study the chapter on metaphor, your eye and ear will sharpen spectacularly. (And there are 18 better chapters in the book!) Although Pattison generally summarizes his discourse (my fave: the brief discussion on generating family [false] rhymes), he offers brain tingling assignments that lets you work through his observations at your own pace. Again, this book doesn't try to be comprehensive in scope, but what it offers makes it an invaluable addition to the writers library.
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