Getting Started 🚦
- Music Notation Vs. Rhythm Notation: how to read notation and rhythms
- Grand Staff / Staff, Clefs, & Notes
- A Complete Guide to Chord Symbols
Online Tools 🛠
- Metronome
- Circle of Fifths: key and diatonic chord reference
- Chord Progression Generator
- Blank Sheet Music: printer-friendly manuscript paper and tabs
Online Apps 💻
- OnMusic Dictionary: look up popular musical terms
- BandLab: free online software to create your own songs using a variety of instruments
- Music Notation: Flat (online editor) / Musescore (app)
- Rhymezone: rhyming thesaurus
Apps 📱
Books 📖
Theory
- Jazzology by Robert Rawlins and Nor Eddine Bahha
- Music in Theory and Practice by Bruce Benward and Marilyn Saker
Songwritting
- Write It Right by Edna Mae Burnam
- Arranging Songs: How to Put the Parts Together by Rikky Rooksby
- Melody: How to Write Great Tunes by Rikky Rooksby
- Songwriting Sourcebook: How to Turn Chords Into Great Songs by Rikky Rooksby
- Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Patterson
Theory Resources
- Lawrence University - Worksheets for Music Theory Fundamentals
- Musical U: superior articles and podcast on many music-related topics
- Music Theory Explained with Oreos: lighthearted read on song form and compositions