Prosody: Take Your Songwriting to the Next Level

AMF is pleased to welcome
Berklee College of Music professor
Pat Pattison

Monday, May 19

We're sorry, but this Small Group Session is FULL.

Learn to improve the relationship between song lyrics and music at this special, musician-focused seminar. Increase the power of your songs by crafting your lyrics into stable and unstable sections.

The focus of the session will include how the elements of structure, including rhythm, rhyme, rhyme types, line lengths and number of lines, create motion to support the emotion of your song.

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 for Berklee's online school. He has written over 30 articles for Home & Studio Recording Magazine and The Performing Songwriter. Pat continues to present songwriting clinics across the US, Canada, and the UK. Several of his students have won Grammys, including John Mayer and Gillian Welch.

Pat Pattison's Web site

Pat Pattison's Bio

Verse Development article by Pat Pattison

Pat Pattison's MySpace page

Berklee Shares Free Online Music Lessons

Stay tuned to the AMF newsletter and Web site.  We're working on other Small Group Sessions and hope to announce them soon!