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Idea & Reference Log

5.0 · 5 reviews

One place for the scraps: a line on the bus, a title from a sign, a song that made you feel something. Each idea gets a date, a feeling and where it came from.

pFirst songmfSome songsfMany songs

All three formats included

  • Print PDFA4, US Letter and an A5 booklet
  • Tablet PDFGoodNotes, Notability · tabs for every section
  • Google DocsOpens a copy in your own Drive

Price: $5

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What’s inside

40 pages for the scraps, the titles and the songs that taught you something.

Side A

  1. A1Idea pages24 pages
  2. A2Titles only4 pages

Side B

  1. B1Reference pages10 pages
  2. B2How to use it2 pages

Total40 pages

Three ways to write

  • Print

    A4 · US Letter · A5 booklet

    Print a few lyric pages, keep them by the guitar. Fold the A5 into a pocket book.

  • Tablet

    GoodNotes · Notability

    Tabs for every section. Write with a pen, copy the page for the next song.

  • Google Docs

    Make a copy · any device

    Type on the bus, on your phone. The columns stay in place.

For every dynamic

  • pFirst song

    Write one line a day. Don’t judge it. In a week you have a verse to start from.

  • mfSome songs

    Fill the feeling for each idea. The ones that share a feeling belong to the same song.

  • fMany songs

    Use the reference pages. Write why a song works, not just that you like it.

From the writers

5.05 reviews

“Clear, calm and useful.”
Charlotte H. · verified buyer
“Titles-only page is genius. Half my songs start there now.”
Isabella B. · verified buyer
“Exactly the pages I needed, nothing else.”
Ethan H. · verified buyer

Questions

Ask us anything. A musician answers within a day.

No. It’s a log: short entries, one idea each, so you find them again when you sit down to write.

Plays well with

Songwriting Starter Kit

This notebook + structure maps, idea log, rhyme guide and 30 days of exercises.

Price: $29instead of $39 apart

Get the kit

Lyrics, syllables and rhyme columns

Print PDFTabletGoogle Docs

12 song shapes with bars and sections

Print PDFTabletGoogle Docs

Idea & Reference Log$5

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