Songwriting 101: A Workbook for Aspiring Songwriters

Appropriate for age 10 through adult, this workbook will guide aspiring songwriters into their first complete songs and beyond! Designed to help musicians of all skill levels – even beginners – write original songs, it can be used as a workbook for a songwriting or general music class, a supplemental curriculum for an instrumental or vocal program, a supplement for private music lessons, homeschooling, or as an independent study.

The workbook includes:

-Ingredients of a song – definitions and structure

-A listening journal

-Ideas and prompts for writing lyrics

-A crash course in music theory, including accessible material on intervals, scales, chords, and rhythm

-Common chord progressions and song examples

-Exercises setting poetry to rhythm

-Eight pages of step-by-step worksheets for completing a first song

-Songwriting journal pages – half lines and half musical staves

-Much more!

Purchase includes permission to make copies for one teacher's use. Two-sided printing and spiral binding is recommended.