Songwriting Resources

Songwriting Resources

Other Songwriting Challenges

• FAWM - February Album Writing Month - write 14 songs in the 28 days of February. This project evolved independently of 50/90, but starting in 2008 FAWM.ORG began sponsoring the 50/90 Challenge so many people here have actively done both.
• Album-A-Day - Self-challenge to both write and record 30 songs (or 20 minutes of music) within 24 hours. Not a community per se, but a related project in spirit. http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/
  
• NaSoAlMo - National Solo Album Month. The goal is to write and record a 28-minute record during November, concurrent with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). http://nasoalmo.org
  
• RPM Challenge - Similar challenge inspired by FAWM and also held in February. The goal is to record 10 songs or 30 minutes of music (although not necessarily written in February). Some fawmers double-dip with this one. http://rpmchallenge.com
  
• Songfight - Each week titles are given, song are written, recorded, and submitted. The next week, people vote on the best. Winners get bragging rights. This is very popular among fawmers. http://songfight.org
  
• The 20th - On the 20th day of the month, write and record a song, so that it's complete and ready to share by the morning of the 21st. Tracks are compiled to a monthly CD. http://cabinetpin.com/20th/
  
• Sounds of the Weak - Weekly recording assignments are given with various themes, then all submissions are posted to the website and podcast. http://www.soundsoftheweak.com/

Website Links

Lyrical Aides:

• Dillfrog's rhyming helper: http://muse.dillfrog.com/sound/search
• Rhyming dictionary: http://www.rhymezone.com
• Rhyming dictionary (with user-updatable imperfect rhymes): http://perfectrhyme.com/
• Wiktionary has a rhyme link for every word: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

Dutch

• http://www.rijmwoordenboek.net/ - As with English Rhyme Zone, but in Dutch
• http://www.rijmgein.nl/ - As above

Japanese

• http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi - This is brilliant. You can put a word in in Japanese, romanised Japanese (eg: ohayo gozaimasu), or English, and it gives you back the kanji, the hiragana, and the meanings and examples of usage.

Music:

• Blank staff/tab paper generator: http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/
• Chord House (piano and guitar reference): http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/

Multiple combinations:

• Hoopshank-Wille Songwriting Challenge Generator: http://www.paulturrell.com/challenge
• THE MUSE: http://muse.fawm.org/
  • Lyrics: http://muse.fawm.org/lyricloud
  • Titles: http://muse.fawm.org/titular
  • Plot lines: http://muse.fawm.org/plot-spline
  • Song structure: http://muse.fawm.org/struxxure