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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics by Berklee

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About the Course

There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view. If you haven’t written any or many songs, this course will show you an efficient, effective process for tailoring songs to express your ideas and emotions. If you have, you’ll look at your process differently, taking control of aspects of the process you may have not noticed. The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You’ll learn to use your tools to enhance your message—to work compositionally at the same time you’re developing your ideas. You’ll be working both lyrically and musically, though musically it’s not necessary that you either read music or play an instrument. If you play, great, and you’ll be encouraged to play and record your musical responses to the assignments. If you don’t play, the course offers you a number of musical loops to work with. All you’ll have to do is sing your melodies over the loops. Assignments will ask you to post something for peer review—sometimes lyric lines or sections, sometimes melodies, sometimes both. None of it has to be polished. The course is about writing, not performing. Most important, you’ll have a lot of fun....

Top reviews

LZ

Jan 19, 2022

This course led by Professor Pattison is informative and vivid, especially when the professor is giving examples, which really helps me understand those new concepts and keeps me from dozing.

CC

Feb 12, 2020

The best way for me to express my appreciation for this fabulous course would be to start sending stronger songs out into the world. Thank you so much, Pat!

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By Luisa U

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Jul 26, 2021

This is a really useful and interesting course thta helps you to delevop a song using efficient tools for songwriters

By Joseph A

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Jan 3, 2024

Thank you so much for the knowledge you have shared to us Pat Pattison. This be a treasure for me for this lifetime.

By Muharrem B

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Dec 16, 2020

If you are really care about writing lyrics, I highly recommend taking this this course. Teached me a lot. Thanks.

By Josué M G L

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Sep 15, 2020

un curso muy útil y revelador para todas las personas interesadas en escribir historias a través de las canciones

By Gabriel B T

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Jan 7, 2022

Muy completo en cuanto a la letra me gustaria que hubiera mas puntos para aprender a componer la música tambien.

By Sarah B

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Aug 25, 2020

What an outstanding class. It really opened up my horizon how songwriting works. I can only recommend this class

By Hera M A

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Jan 16, 2022

Amazing course!! Everything a beginner needs to start writing, and fun professor. I recommend the book as well.

By Mattia C

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Sep 4, 2017

Awesome course, awesome teacher. This was a must for everyone who want to write lyrics. Very well done course.

By Sirinissara W

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Nov 4, 2022

good professor. He taught so well and try to explain in the way that we all should see the big picture of it.

By Isadora C D S

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Jan 22, 2020

So far a love this!I`m still in the beginning of the second week, but already opened my mind a lot.Thanks

By Julian A

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Jul 28, 2019

Very interesting and useful techniques to get you started and develop your own song writing capabilities.

By Rarus

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Feb 6, 2021

The best course I've ever done! Really loved. I'm from Brasil and I am really in love with my songs now!

By Dr. K N S

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Jun 14, 2020

what a brilliant course .. i love it.. it is obviously little tough but learn so much from this course

By Lorraine W

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Nov 17, 2019

Loved this course. I took it as I was having a little bit of writers block and this certainly helped!!!

By Gregg B

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Mar 20, 2023

Great combination of theory, experiential learning, and community-based conversation about the course!

By Lucas Z

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Dec 9, 2020

Great course, I've really learned important insights on songwritting. Thank you Pat and all your team.

By Evelin N

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Sep 16, 2019

Perfect teacher, perfect lessons, perfect everything! Thank you for the experience! I'll never forget!

By Matthew E

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Sep 11, 2017

Awesome class! Put names to some of the techniques I've been using for years and added a few new ones.

By Tomás G

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Apr 10, 2019

Excelente curso brinda toda la Información necesaria para enriquecer tus habilidades de composición.

By Elio C

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Mar 4, 2019

Patt is a passionate instructor. His way of explaining is amazing. I learned so much in this course.

By Anjali S

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Jul 21, 2017

A chill journey through the making of a song all in your own time and with lots of creative freedom!

By Cesar A D M

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Nov 10, 2021

execelente curso para aprender las bases para escribir letras de canciones , con impacto musical .

By Caleb H

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Jun 28, 2023

This was an excellent course! It really helped be learn the basics required to start songwriting .

By Angelina G

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Jun 28, 2021

I wrote my first song!!! AAAAAAA

i didnt think that it is so easy to write the lyrics for your song