How to Electrify Your Writing with Verbs: A Songwriting Lesson with Pat Pattison

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In this free creative writing lesson, Berklee College of Music Professor and Berklee Online course author, Pat Pattison, offers tips to electrify your writing using verbs.
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About Pat Pattison
Pat Pattison is an author, clinician and Berklee Professor of Lyric Writing and Poetry whose students have composed for major artists and written number one songs. At Berklee, he developed the curriculum for the only songwriting major in the country. His books, including Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming and Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, are recognized as definitive in their genre, and have earned many ecstatic reviews. His clinics are attended by songwriters all over the country, and his articles appear regularly in a variety of industry publications.

[@virginia.malone]

Verbs are the powerhouse of the cell

[@FancyNoises]

😆

[@whatabouttheearth]

"🎶 that's the power of nouns🎶"

[@SP-mf9sh]

All writers need to read more poetry. Poetry is an underrated and under respected art form that is mandatory for any songwriter.

[@andrewwilkins6759]

instantly helping

[@NagoyaHouseHead]

Wish I was a Kellogs cornflake Floating in my bowl, taking movies Relaxing a while Living in style Talking to a raison who occasionally plays L.A. Casually glancing at his toupee Wish I was an English muffin About to make the most out of a toaster I'd ease myself down Coming up brown I prefer boysenberry more than any ordinary jam I`m a "Citizens for Boysenberry Jam" fan

[@beakf1]

This was the injection my song writing needed.I paid no attention to learning English at school.I will now be hard at it everyday.I just needed focus.I have already re written a verse after watching this and surfing some Wiki links to refresh my brain what a verb and noun are.Thank you :)

[@Blender_and_Chirp]

Not sure I agree with this because nouns are super important, analyze "Nobody Home" by Pink Floyd. This song is as good as anything and the nouns convey the emotion.

[@whatabouttheearth]

😂 damn straight, awesome song. "🎶I got thirteen thousand channels of shit on the You Tubes to choose from🎶" In his defense, the verbs do function to strengthen the imagery of nouns, and that's essentially what he's saying. "🎶And I've got a strong will to fly, but I've got nowhere to fly to, to fly to, to fly to, to fly to, to fly to🎶"

[@kidderminsterbro]

thanks for this wonderful help. back in the seventies i was the proud owner of an ampeg v4 stack with two 4x12 cabinets. i can just picture my arms stretching still. peace, rich

[@Amahla]

Absolutely blew my mind, a good reminder I need to revisit poetry analysis

[@cayvzcult]

Omg this is genius. Thanks AGAIN, Pat!

[@jacklarm2170]

I think as mortals we have to adjust ourselves just a little to this mad man's genius. Then we might harvest some crazy-good fruit.

[@MattGlickmanMusic]

"adjust"? thats a low wattage verb bro

[@josefwolff5431]

Genius? What are you? His student who needs to kiss his ass to get a good grade cuz you suck at writing poetry and songs? He doesn't know what he's talking about. Poets are born not made and you can't teach it in a class you assholes. You dirty pseudo-scientific fraudulent morons and dirty assholes. He's just analyzing someone else's works because he himself cannot write. If he wrote decent poetry it would be online for everyone to read and compare and say, oh okay this guy not only can write but he can teach. But his poetry is nowhere to be found because he's a fraud. I write better than anything this guy has ever read when I'm half asleep.

[@FancyNoises]

@@josefwolff5431 where is your writing? I see nothing on your channel.

[@BelieverStarcraft]

Had him come into our class in Sydney

[@AlexSage]

This guy’s really good =)

[@Starrysofficial]

Amazing!!!!💥💥💥

[@christhomas6827]

Brilliant! Thanks Pat!

[@carlysmith2687]

Excellent Advice!! xx

[@puffpanda1]

This was so dope!!!!!

[@saradara39]

love this video!

[@eltouristoduo]

good stuff. I am just starting to study this..though I'm 'old'...but with renewed interest, and trying to shake off the impression of it being 'too dificult'. One little thing I think he could have added that may be releavant, idk...but... present tense verbs seems to generally be more compelling that past ones...right? Though of course there is need for some past tense (maybe lol)

[@simonesjourney3172]

Thank you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@mr.yellowstrat3352]

Good shit

[@torstentorsten]

This is as close as you can get to getting advice from God.

[@billlantz8751]

Great observations!

[@apexxxx10]

Kiitos

[@phatato]

I feel like his advice of paying attention to verbs is very useful, but his example wasn't the best, I wish he had used an actual song that people have heard, something that anyone can relate to (first thing that comes to mind that makes his point well is Across the Universe... thoughts meander like a restless wind... words slither wildly as they slip away... inviting and inciting me etc). That's a beautiful poem by Robert Frost but for me there's something sort of obscure and unrelatable to those words being used in song lyrics that wouldn't be as effective. I want to connect with people, not just show them how clever I am.

[@kj6qvb]

"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves. Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays."

[@whatabouttheearth]

You are but sweet strontium slumbering in my synapses. 😂

[@wearashirt]

Electrical Engineer?

[@producermind9030]

Verbs verbs verbs. Ok. I got it. Thanks

[@williamtravis9283]

The word "BABY" is a Noun...not...a VERB...write a song with the word BABY in it...and...you've got yourself a "HIT!"

[@whatabouttheearth]

"I once saw a baby, sitting on a log, I picked up that baby, And I fed it to my dog" What do you think? Guaranteed Grammy for best country song? 😂

[@kevinjoseph517]

I boiught his book or one of them..i dont like it....weird exercises in it.

[@koolaidmanhandsome]

I think they call that Pop Culture.