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Writing better lyrics, the essential guide to powerful songwriting, by Pat Pattison ; foreword by Gillian Welch

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Writing better lyrics

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by Pat Pattison ; foreword by Gillian Welch

the essential guide to powerful songwriting

Music Scores, Lyrics & Libretti. With additional song evaluations and exercises to help songwriters hone their lyric-writing skills, "Writing Better Lyrics, 2nd Edition" is more comprehensive than ever before. The book features new and expanded chapters covering such topics as: when the use of repetition can be an asset; how to successfully manipulate meter; how to work with a co-writer; how to build on ideas and generate effective titles; and, much, much more

Foreword / Gillian Welch -- Introduction -- 1. Object writing : the art of the diver -- 2. Rusty's collar : a lesson in showing and telling -- 3. Making metaphors -- 4. Learning to say no : building worksheets -- 5. Clichés : the sleeping puppy (a case study) -- 6. Productive repetition -- 7. Verse development and power positions -- 8. Travelogues : verse continuity -- 9. Stripping your repetition for repainting -- 10. Perspectives -- 11. Point of view : second person and the hangman -- 12. Point of view : second person as narrative -- 13. Dialogue and point of view -- 14. Meter : something in common -- 15. Spotlighting with common meter -- 16. Meter : two by two -- 17. Managing couplets -- 18. Prosody : structure as film score -- 19. Understanding motion -- 20. Form follows function : building the perfect beast -- 21. The great balancing act : courting danger on the high wire -- 22. Song forms : (im) potent packages -- 23. Song forms : (im) potent packages II -- 24. Process -- Appendix. Co-writing : the "no"-free zone -- Permissions -- Index