Pat Pattison Interview (Part 4/6) | Supporting lyrics with melodic phrasing | How to Write Songs

Pat Pattison is a professor at the Berklee College of Music, where he has taught lyric writing, songwriting, and poetry for 47 years.

In this series, Pat takes us through the elements of lyric writing - and demonstrates how making decisions about the structure and placement of lyrics can amplify the meaning and emotions we are trying to convey. Motion creates emotion.

In this Part, Pat demonstrates how where you phrase your lyric in relation to the downbeat of a bar can completely change the feeling of it - what he calls the "body language" of melodic phrasing.

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