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Pat Pattison

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Pat Pattison is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches Lyric Writing and Poetry. His books Writing Better Lyrics, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, and The Essential Guide to Rhyming are considered definitive in their genre and have earned many ecstatic reviews. In addition, Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses for Berklee's online school, available through Berkleemusic.com .

Pat has written over 30 articles for Home & Studio Recording Magazine, and The Performing Songwriter and a variety of industry publications and continues to present songwriting clinics across the globe. His internationally successful students include Grammy winners John Mayer, Gillian Welch and Rob Hotchkiss (Train).

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Member Since: 22/01/2008
Band Website: patpattison.com
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My Blog

The secrets of song writing success (7:00)

http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/secrets-song-writ... On New Zealand TV!
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:20:00 GMT

Teaching the Tools of the Trade - new Feature in Berklee Today

Teaching the Tools of the Trade
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:28:00 GMT

Review from Australian tour

From Brian Ralston:"Those of you who get John Chesher's emails for the Excelsior Singer/Songwriter nights will be well aware of John's recommendation to take part in Pat Pattison's songwriting seminar...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:00 GMT