Pick four chords and hear them loop. Click a bar to select it, then click a chord below to put it there. Each chord lasts one bar. Press Play to hear it with the beat.
Sixteen steps make one bar. Click squares to add or remove hits. Click a drum's name to mute it. Golden rule: keep the snare (or clap) on beats 2 and 4, and change anything else.
Tap tempo: play a song you love and press Tap (top bar) along with the beat 8 times. Song Lab sets the BPM to match.
Lay out your whole song. Add sections, set how many bars each lasts, and give each one an energy level from 1 to 5. The curve shows your song's shape. Aim for the final chorus to be the highest point.
Length formula: bars × 4 × 60 ÷ BPM = seconds. Change the BPM in the top bar and the length updates.
Fill the page with images, then fit words to notes. Object writing: write about the prompt for the whole timer without stopping. No rhyming, no fixing. Use all seven senses. Then circle your best 3–5 phrases.
When the timer ends, circle your best 3–5 phrases. Those go in your verses.
Type one lyric line per row. Each note in your melody phrase needs one syllable. Counts are estimates, so clap them out to check.