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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 18, 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 11, 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 Francisco R Z

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Sep 13, 2016

Feeling Inspired!!

By Jeremiah P

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May 21, 2019

Pat's a cool cat.

By Sayo A

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Oct 16, 2017

Excellent course!

By Víctor A

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Feb 21, 2017

Sensei Pattison !

By Ержанұлы С

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Oct 29, 2024

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

By Mukwato M

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May 1, 2023

it has helped me

By Jerry O

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Jun 10, 2022

Great foundation

By Katalin A

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Jun 11, 2022

Changed my life

By Kaiwalya D V

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Aug 18, 2020

it was great.

By Sarah W

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Aug 17, 2018

Great Course!

By José I

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Oct 19, 2017

The best!!!!

By Brittany A

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Mar 30, 2017

so helpful.

By José M C

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Jan 10, 2017

Brilliant!

By Deleted A

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Nov 25, 2019

Very Good

By Philips o

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Jun 29, 2022

PERFECT

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Nov 17, 2017

amazing!

By Daniel N d S

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Nov 3, 2016

Awesome!

By S.M A S A

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Jan 12, 2021

awesome

By Alejandra B

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Aug 24, 2016

GREAT!

By David O

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Jan 24, 2022

Great

By Minh C

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Apr 22, 2025

Goos

By Quang H L

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Oct 25, 2021

Good

By Hai y

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Jun 7, 2018

tQ

By Greg T

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Feb 4, 2019

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By Andrew N

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Oct 24, 2020

I really found this course extremely helpful. Thank you. I loved the course, love Pat's teaching, have been to a couple of his seminars in Melbourne, Australia. I have three of his books and found that this course just made me do al the things I've read and heard him talk about. The only reason I didn't give it 5/5 stars - which I think it is worth - is at the very end (Week 6) I had a peer review from someone whom I don't think understood enough about what they were supposed to know! They failed me, whereas upon submitting exactly the same submission was given 65/65. I had also been given 65/65 from someone the week before in Week 5. I found that frustrating, knowing I had spent time working on the very things the assignment was aimed at ... BUT GREAT COURSE - not sure if anything can be done a bout that final week... THANKS again!