--- product_id: 62309968 title: "Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting" price: "€ 39.88" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/62309968-writing-better-lyrics-the-essential-guide-to-powerful-songwriting store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting **Price:** € 39.88 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting - **How much does it cost?** € 39.88 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/62309968-writing-better-lyrics-the-essential-guide-to-powerful-songwriting) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Enhance your songwriting with proven techniques. This revised guide covers generating ideas to fine-tuning lyrics, helping writers craft more impactful, imaginative songs. Review: For Beginner to Advanced Lyric Writers - Pat Pattison teaches the tools of lyric writing as a springboard to get your ideas down and fleshed out into something emotionally impactful, these techniques can be transcended into the genre of music you're working in. You start out writing from your senses, utilising appropriate form, gramma, structure and rhythm suitable for your songs narrative, then stacking the emotional obstacles of your subject, down to the finishing touches of your lyrics. The emphasis is on practice within the 50 exercises - you learn the value of this through your efforts, not what you read :) I would strongly recommend this book if you are struggling to write from your own experiences, fleshing out ideas (getting the story going) or even if you're like me an accomplished musician but ok/crappy lyricist. I used this book to assist with writing lyrics for other audiences - for personal subjects I am not familiar with. I found myself being able to flesh out multiple versions of scenes I was not there to witness personally but have the lyrics impact me emotionally when I read them back days later. I compared what I created from this book to what I wrote before, and the difference is night and day! I also now look at other peoples works and find better ways they could have written theirs! Strongly suggest writing notes down for the milestone learning points - found these handy when I write my own lyrics. Took me about 3-4 months to complete it, ranging from 2-10 hours a week, you may be able to do it faster. I spent a-lot of time on some key exercises which allowed me to walk away with useable sections I couldn't come up with before starting this book. It feels like an epic journey when you finish it, first book I ever read without skipping the end! Thanks so much Pat Pattison Review: Great book - Lots of exercises to improve your writing and imagination ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 13,357 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 3 in Music Notebooks & Pads | | Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (2,152) | | Dimensions | 13.8 x 2.1 x 21.2 cm | | Edition | Second | | ISBN-10 | 1582975779 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1582975771 | | Item weight | 261 g | | Language | English | | Print length | 304 pages | | Publication date | 8 Jan. 2010 | | Publisher | Penguin Publishing Group | ## Images ![Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91pv9a8gT9L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For Beginner to Advanced Lyric Writers *by A***B on 6 March 2019* Pat Pattison teaches the tools of lyric writing as a springboard to get your ideas down and fleshed out into something emotionally impactful, these techniques can be transcended into the genre of music you're working in. You start out writing from your senses, utilising appropriate form, gramma, structure and rhythm suitable for your songs narrative, then stacking the emotional obstacles of your subject, down to the finishing touches of your lyrics. The emphasis is on practice within the 50 exercises - you learn the value of this through your efforts, not what you read :) I would strongly recommend this book if you are struggling to write from your own experiences, fleshing out ideas (getting the story going) or even if you're like me an accomplished musician but ok/crappy lyricist. I used this book to assist with writing lyrics for other audiences - for personal subjects I am not familiar with. I found myself being able to flesh out multiple versions of scenes I was not there to witness personally but have the lyrics impact me emotionally when I read them back days later. I compared what I created from this book to what I wrote before, and the difference is night and day! I also now look at other peoples works and find better ways they could have written theirs! Strongly suggest writing notes down for the milestone learning points - found these handy when I write my own lyrics. Took me about 3-4 months to complete it, ranging from 2-10 hours a week, you may be able to do it faster. I spent a-lot of time on some key exercises which allowed me to walk away with useable sections I couldn't come up with before starting this book. It feels like an epic journey when you finish it, first book I ever read without skipping the end! Thanks so much Pat Pattison ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book *by M***N on 13 November 2024* Lots of exercises to improve your writing and imagination ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pattison is great! But this book doesn't show what he has to offer. *by S***E on 27 March 2013* I have read and reread this book numerous times. In fact I feel that Pattisons way of teaching is so interesting that also tracked down more or less everything else that he has released on the internet, namely videos. I would like to give this five stars, because it deserves it in many ways. It is very well written and I admire how Pattison communicates some rather difficult concepts in a pedagogical and efficient manner. Because Pattison really goes deeper than most songwriting books; sure, he covers a lot of the conventional wisdom of song forms, show-don't-tell etc., but he also brings a lot of new things to the table. His take on rhyming and song structure for instance - a very interesting approach indeed, especially the way in which he incooperates these things in a general framework of STABILITY and INSTABILITY. These two terms are subjective/phenomenological emotions that we experience in response to certain stimuli, and, bluntly put, Pattison's approach is about creating a appropriate relationship between the feelings of stability and instability that is created in various elements of form and content. When I watch Pattisons videos it seems to me, that he has gravitated more towards focusing on stability and instability as a unifying concept. The idea is communicated in the book, but I don't feel it has the central place that it ought to have. I suspect that a third edition might be structured differently with more emphasis on that. That is one of my objections to the book. But it's in and by itself hardly enough to remove a star. I think it's more serious that music is so neglected in the book. It's understandable that a book lends itself more to talking about language, but in songwriting, musical considerations just have to be there. Jack Perricones "Melody in Songwriting" is quite good in that regard, as it fits with the stability/instability paradigm, but still: I feel there are many things specifically about the relationship between words and music that ought to be described. Also, I feel that there should be more about the challenges one encounters in the process of writing. There is a chapter with an example of a process, and it's quite good, but it neglects both the beginning and the ending phase. I give it four stars with kind of a bad conscience. Because it really is the most influential songwriting book I have read. And it's the one I always recommends others. My objections is really, that it isn't quite the "songwriting book to end them all" that it has the potential to be. Maybe that's setting the ambitions to high. It certainly is a very, very good book. ## Frequently Bought Together - Writing Better Lyrics - The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book - Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/62309968-writing-better-lyrics-the-essential-guide-to-powerful-songwriting](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/62309968-writing-better-lyrics-the-essential-guide-to-powerful-songwriting) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-05-21*