Helpful Links for Songwriters

The Harry Fox Agency
A music licensing agency that currently represents more than 27,000 music publishers.

Addicted to songwriting?
This site will help you indulge in your habit.

Copyright your music
Register your copyright at the Library of Congress.

CD Baby
Sell your CDs online, plus super connections with satellite radio and music download sites.

Derek's favorites
Here's a boatload of useful sites for songwriters, created by Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby.

The Muse's Muse
One of the top-ranked sites on the web for songwriter information and services; be sure to check out RadioMuse!

Find that guitar chord
Know where to put your fingers on the frets but not the name of the chord?

More help with guitar chords
Here's another place where you can find and hear the chord you're searching for.

Independent Songwriter
A web 'zine with excellent info for the independent songwriter!

Indie-Music.com
Tons of interesting stuff about independently produced music.

Radio station directory
A directory of radio stations from BRS Media that lists stations by format, state & call letters. Includes International & Internet lists!

Online Metronome
Need a metronome? Here's a free one for you.

Another online metronome
Train yourself to stay with the beat.

Songwriter Universe Magazine
Songwriter Universe Magazine is a web 'zine that presents a wide range of articles of interest to songwriters, artists & the music community.

Songwriters Tip Jar
Where Songwriters share their hot tips, savvy tricks and time-saving shortcuts.

Sound Exchange
The first organization designated by the U.S. Copyright Office to collect digital performance royalties for songs performed on cable, Internet (noninteractive streaming) and satellite radio.

Online help for writers
This site is not just for songwriters, but there's lots of interesting assistance available here.

Musipedia
A searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.

Musictheory.net
A site that offers online training and exercises in music theory.

Cliche finder
Not that you WANT to use cliches in your song, but you can find them here.

Free guitar lessons
Start here to learn; lessons also exist for improving your abilities.

More free guitar lessons
Free online guitar lessons with guitar tab, MIDI and mp3 audio cover a wide variety of guitar lesson categories. Intermediate/advanced.

Write Express - free rhyming dictionary
Type the word you want to rhyme and let technology do the work!

BandName.com
Officially register your band name here.

Music reading material; some free, some not.
A list of music journals, magazines, newspapers and periodicals from the Indiana University School of Music.

Music contracts online
Every imaginable type of music contract is downloadable at this web site. This service is not free.

Great Lakes Songwriting Contest
If you live in Ontario or one of the 8 Great Lakes States in the USA, you qualify to enter!

The Lyrical Line
Articles, newsletter and Q and A for songwriters

Magazines for Guitarists & Other Musicians
65 varied-title magazines for guitarists and others interested in music.

Independent Music Publishers (IMP)
A web site where composers and arrangers can self-publish & sell their songs as sheet music. Several services are offered for a 15% fee when you sell one of your songs.

Irene Jackson
A website chock full of tips and tricks, and even some of the business, of songwriting.



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