Riff to Chorus Starter Kit

Turn One Riff Into a Mapped-Out Song This Week

The free Riff to Chorus Starter Kit: 10 printable pages from Gregori's Songwriting Workbook that take one idea, whether it's a riff, a hum or a chord change, and turn it into a plan for a whole song.

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Got more voice memos than finished songs?

Your phone is full of riffs, hums and half-choruses, and most of them are called New Recording 47. This kit gives you the first steps of a method that gets them out of the folder and into a song.

What you'll get (10 pages, free)

• The Six-Week Plan: the week-by-week route the full workbook uses to finish three complete songs, at three or four sessions a week.
• The Song Map: what every section of a song is for (intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, outro) and how long each one usually runs. Includes a finished example map for the song "Three Novembers".
• A blank Song Map worksheet: plan your strongest idea's key, tempo, form, chords and energy section by section.
• The Idea Log: a one-page system for logging every riff, melody, lyric and groove, plus a naming trick so you can find your memos again.
• From Riff to Section: four signs a riff will work, four ways to build it into a song, and a 20-minute Riff Session exercise.
• The Riff Builder: a TAB and staff worksheet with a riff checklist, room for chords that fit under it, and space to note where it lives in the song.
• Four Progressions Worth Knowing: a cheat sheet on why some chord changes feel like coming home, and how to make them your own instead of copying a formula.

Who it's for

Singers, guitarists, piano players and multi-instrumentalists, whether you write the lyrics, the music or both. You don't need to read music. If you sing but don't play, you can still use almost all of it: hum your ideas into your phone and bring the pages to a player.

Print the worksheets as many times as you like.

Your next song starts with one idea. Grab the free kit and map it out tonight.

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Rory Gregori, author of Gregori's Songwriting Workbook: From Riff to Finished Song