Lyric and Songwriting Notes
This is a digital folder of my notes, which I’ve created to help me write and produce music. They cover everything you need to know about songwriting, all laid out in straightforward, easy-to-understand diagrams.
These notes will be updated with new knowledge and diagrams over time, but if you’ve already purchased them once, new copies will be available for free once published.
Remember that your or my knowledge can always be improved. If you want me to add anything to the notes, please email me and share whether it’s a specific songwriting topic or information that should be added, and I’ll see what I can do.
Much of this information requires a basic understanding of music theory, Roman numerals, piano and guitar. If you don’t understand some of the notes, I recommend asking someone who has studied music in any way, and they’ll most likely understand the notes.
Compressed Folder Containing
Music Theory Notes
Base-Treble Clefs
Major-Minor Degrees
Wheel of Fifths
Sharp-Flat, Key Signatures,
Types of Chords (29)
Chord Progressions
list of 4 chord progressions from 200 of the most streamed songs on Spotify.
Remember that many mainstream songs have the same chord progressions, so there are only 76 progressions listed down from the 2401 different possibilities.
Modes
Ionion (Natural Major) 19
Dorian 10
Phrygian 2
Lydian 13
Mixolydian 1
Aeolian (Natural Minor) 31
Locrian 0
Piano Modes and Scales
44 different modes and scales were laid out as piano keys, with C as the root note for every one of them.
Guitar Chords
These notes are not instructions on how to play a C or a D chord. These notes show every different way to play chords and help you understand guitar theory enough to help transpose your songwriting into guitar, even if you don’t know how to play.
Major
Minor
Major Spread
Minor Spread
Major 7
Minor 7
Diminished
Augmented
Lyrical Elements
A list of 34 lyrical/literary elements that can be used in lyric writing.
List of lyrical words
A list of words to help you develop topics and ideas for music.
Lists such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives have all been hand-picked so that they’re all relevant song topics and are not repeated.
125 Positive Emotions
125 negative Emotions
1000 nouns
1000 verbs
1000 Adverbs
1000 Adjectives
94 Contractions
120 Pronouns
12 Determiners
74 Prepositions
55 conjunctions
This is a digital folder of my notes, which I’ve created to help me write and produce music. They cover everything you need to know about songwriting, all laid out in straightforward, easy-to-understand diagrams.
These notes will be updated with new knowledge and diagrams over time, but if you’ve already purchased them once, new copies will be available for free once published.
Remember that your or my knowledge can always be improved. If you want me to add anything to the notes, please email me and share whether it’s a specific songwriting topic or information that should be added, and I’ll see what I can do.
Much of this information requires a basic understanding of music theory, Roman numerals, piano and guitar. If you don’t understand some of the notes, I recommend asking someone who has studied music in any way, and they’ll most likely understand the notes.
Compressed Folder Containing
Music Theory Notes
Base-Treble Clefs
Major-Minor Degrees
Wheel of Fifths
Sharp-Flat, Key Signatures,
Types of Chords (29)
Chord Progressions
list of 4 chord progressions from 200 of the most streamed songs on Spotify.
Remember that many mainstream songs have the same chord progressions, so there are only 76 progressions listed down from the 2401 different possibilities.
Modes
Ionion (Natural Major) 19
Dorian 10
Phrygian 2
Lydian 13
Mixolydian 1
Aeolian (Natural Minor) 31
Locrian 0
Piano Modes and Scales
44 different modes and scales were laid out as piano keys, with C as the root note for every one of them.
Guitar Chords
These notes are not instructions on how to play a C or a D chord. These notes show every different way to play chords and help you understand guitar theory enough to help transpose your songwriting into guitar, even if you don’t know how to play.
Major
Minor
Major Spread
Minor Spread
Major 7
Minor 7
Diminished
Augmented
Lyrical Elements
A list of 34 lyrical/literary elements that can be used in lyric writing.
List of lyrical words
A list of words to help you develop topics and ideas for music.
Lists such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives have all been hand-picked so that they’re all relevant song topics and are not repeated.
125 Positive Emotions
125 negative Emotions
1000 nouns
1000 verbs
1000 Adverbs
1000 Adjectives
94 Contractions
120 Pronouns
12 Determiners
74 Prepositions
55 conjunctions
This is a digital folder of my notes, which I’ve created to help me write and produce music. They cover everything you need to know about songwriting, all laid out in straightforward, easy-to-understand diagrams.
These notes will be updated with new knowledge and diagrams over time, but if you’ve already purchased them once, new copies will be available for free once published.
Remember that your or my knowledge can always be improved. If you want me to add anything to the notes, please email me and share whether it’s a specific songwriting topic or information that should be added, and I’ll see what I can do.
Much of this information requires a basic understanding of music theory, Roman numerals, piano and guitar. If you don’t understand some of the notes, I recommend asking someone who has studied music in any way, and they’ll most likely understand the notes.
Compressed Folder Containing
Music Theory Notes
Base-Treble Clefs
Major-Minor Degrees
Wheel of Fifths
Sharp-Flat, Key Signatures,
Types of Chords (29)
Chord Progressions
list of 4 chord progressions from 200 of the most streamed songs on Spotify.
Remember that many mainstream songs have the same chord progressions, so there are only 76 progressions listed down from the 2401 different possibilities.
Modes
Ionion (Natural Major) 19
Dorian 10
Phrygian 2
Lydian 13
Mixolydian 1
Aeolian (Natural Minor) 31
Locrian 0
Piano Modes and Scales
44 different modes and scales were laid out as piano keys, with C as the root note for every one of them.
Guitar Chords
These notes are not instructions on how to play a C or a D chord. These notes show every different way to play chords and help you understand guitar theory enough to help transpose your songwriting into guitar, even if you don’t know how to play.
Major
Minor
Major Spread
Minor Spread
Major 7
Minor 7
Diminished
Augmented
Lyrical Elements
A list of 34 lyrical/literary elements that can be used in lyric writing.
List of lyrical words
A list of words to help you develop topics and ideas for music.
Lists such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives have all been hand-picked so that they’re all relevant song topics and are not repeated.
125 Positive Emotions
125 negative Emotions
1000 nouns
1000 verbs
1000 Adverbs
1000 Adjectives
94 Contractions
120 Pronouns
12 Determiners
74 Prepositions
55 conjunctions