Pat Pattison is a lyric writing and poetry Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he founded the songwriting department in 1980. The Berklee Songwriting program has since developed into the most sought after songwriting major in the world.

Pat has written three books: Writing Better Lyrics, The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, and The Essential Guide to Rhyming. Together they create the core lyric writing curriculum at Berklee. The 2nd Edition of Writing Better Lyrics was released in January 2010, and soon became No. 1 in Amazon.com’s “Songwriting Books” section (where it still hovers in the top 5).

Pat has developed three online lyric writing courses, available through Berklee's Online School. He presents songwriting clinics throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and has also written over 30 articles for Home and Studio Recording Magazine and Performing Songwriter Magazine.

Several of Pat’s students have gone on to achieve a variety of successes in different aspects of the music industry: John Mayer and Gillian Welch are both grammy winners; Click 5 was an overnight sensation pop band in 2004; Rob Giles is an LA based producer, performer, and member of indie pop band, The Rescues; Andrea Stolpe is an author, educator, performer and former Nashville staff-writer; and Derek Sivers, in 1998, started CD Baby - the first DIY music distributor for indie musicians. For more information about Pat, go to http://patpattison.com.