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Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice
Songwriting Without Boundaries Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice Author:Pat Pattison Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries helps songwriters commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of sense-bound prompt challenges helps songwriters develop the skills they need to: — tap into their senses and inject their writing with vivid details — effec... more »tively use metaphor and comparative language
add rhythm to their writing and manage phrasing
Divided into four sections, this guide features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets and prose writers. Contributing writers will include: multiple Grammy winning songwriter Gillian Welch; professional songwriter Mike Reid (?I Can?t Make You Love Me? [performed by Bonnie Raitt]); professional poet Caroline Harvey, who was featured on HBO?s Def Poetry Jam; a host of songwriters from the Berklee College of Music faculty; and more.« less