Free Songwriting Worksheets on the Web

A few good worksheets can save you time when you’re writing. They can spur your imagination, help you consolidate your possible rhymes, and lead you to create a song outline you never imagined.

There are a number of free songwriting worksheets available on the web, and at SongChops we’ve developed a few free songwriting worksheets of our own.

Pentatonic Scale for Songwriters (Jimmy Kachulis) – learn how to how to write blues, rock, rhythm and blues songs by adding certain chords and notes to your compositions. I’ve posted some of Jimmy’s videos on the blog before. A Berklee instructor.
Rhyming Basics (Pat Pattison – Berklee) – helps you understand why you should rhyme in the first place
Effective Rhymes (Pat Pattison – Berklee) – gives an overview of types of rhymes and exercises for finding rhymes- a great second step to the link above
Melody Basics (Jack Perricone – Berklee) – overview of melody structure and how to approach for a song, particularly page 3 – how to write for the voice (range and things to keep in mind)
Lyrical Elements (Pat Pattison – Berklee) – overview of phrases and how they work in a lyric
BerkleeShares.com has a great collection of songwriting and arranging PDFs available if you have some time.