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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 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 Tyler C

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Jul 24, 2019

Pat Pattison was great at teaching the course!

By Diane S

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Oct 2, 2016

This is how you write songs...... Awesome!!!!!

By Dixita S

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Aug 7, 2020

great course, had a lot of fun completing it.

By RIAZ A C

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Oct 26, 2020

Extremely useful and a must of songwriters

By Jebbie S

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Jul 28, 2017

An amazing course! Pat is fun to listen to!

By Mara C

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Sep 5, 2017

Very nice course! Useful for lyricist! :)

By Gunilla J E

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Jan 10, 2017

Fantastic course, lecturer and feed back!

By Geyby A

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Feb 18, 2025

Loved the course, I feel I learnt a lot

By Calibr3

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Jun 25, 2021

perfect

best course one can ever opt for

By RENGGA A P

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Mar 22, 2021

i like this lessons thank you very much

By spirit t

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Nov 18, 2022

Very detailed. I learnt a great deal.

By 朱思伟

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Mar 19, 2017

join us to learn from the beginning!

By Arthur B

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Nov 26, 2023

Very good course, I learned a lot.

By Joshua A

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Jun 20, 2019

This is amazing. Thank you Berklee

By reza z

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Mar 18, 2021

amazing teacher. amazing course !

By Francis C

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Oct 25, 2020

Very helpful course! Keep it up!

By Mikael R

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Sep 7, 2017

Best songwriting experience ever

By Alain M

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Oct 22, 2021

Very good techniques and hints.

By Kenneth W

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Aug 30, 2021

Very practical and Informative.

By noel l

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Dec 2, 2020

i learn a lot from this course

By Danny R C

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May 18, 2023

it’s

a life changing

most do…

By Adam T

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Feb 10, 2021

I got a lot from this course.

By Ernesto P

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Aug 17, 2018

Impressive. Excellent course.

By Lorand K

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Jul 7, 2017

amazing course learning allot

By indy

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Dec 31, 2022

thank you for this experiece