Random Music Generators for Practice and Songwriting

Draw the next thing to play or write: a scale, a chord, a note, an instrument, five words for a lyric or a song topic.

11 pages

Random Scale GeneratorA scale to practice, with its notes and key signature. B Locrian
Random Word Generator for SongsFive picture words for a lyric, with syllables and rhymes. soar · sleepwalk · quicksand
Random Note GeneratorA note name to play, or a note on the staff to read. C sharp
What Should I Write a Song About? 300 Topics With an AngleA song subject with an angle to write it from. The friend who moved away
Random Instrument GeneratorAn instrument from around the world, with how it makes its sound. Taiko
Random Key Signature GeneratorA key signature to name, with the major key and relative minor under a cover. 1 sharp
Random Chord GeneratorA chord to play or spell, with its notes and symbol. B flat minor
Random Guitar Chord GeneratorA guitar chord drawn as a chord box, with frets and notes. D5 power chord, open
Random BPM and Dark Melodic Cinematic Key GeneratorA tempo and a dark key to start a track in, such as 74 BPM in D minor. 104 BPM in F sharp Phrygian
Random Album Name GeneratorMade-up album and song titles in three parts: an opening, a subject from eight genre shelves and an ending. Coin-Operated Cornfields Down by the Reservoir
Classical Song Name GeneratorA title for a made-up classical piece, built the classical way: form, number, key, opus number and a nickname. Ballade No. 5 in A major, Op. 191, “Frost on the Latch”

These pages hand a musician the next thing to play or write. The scale and note pages are for practice: draw one of 144 scales with every note spelled out and its key signature, or one of the 24 keys alone; draw a bare note name to play, or switch to treble clef, hide the names and read each note from its picture on the staff.

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The chord pages draw a chord with its notes and symbol, or a guitar chord as a chord box with its frets, and the tempo page sets a BPM and a dark key. The instrument page covers 200 instruments, each with how its sound is made, and filters by family, region and orchestra seat. The songwriting pages break a blank page: five concrete words with syllable counts and rhymes, a subject with an angle and a point of view, a made-up album or classical title. Two pages finish the set: the rhythm page gives a bar to clap and the chord progression page gives chords to play under it. The theory on every page is checked line by line against a named source.

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