I created an excel that helps you write songs

[Dusk1]

Hello all

I am an aspiring musician who has coded/created this thing in excel that helps you to write songs.

It tries to tackle a lot of subjects, as in, you can :

A.Write notes/songs.
B.Review general music info (chords,circle of fifths.....).
C.Get tips (how to sound funky, how does rap work, how to make synthwave......)
........

The idea is that, you want to make a song, so you :

1.Go into this excel and write your song(plan it out), you have in here, all of the information you could ever need to make a song.
2.Go ahead and make your song in your DAW of choice.

It does not currently have all of what I have said above, it is a work in progress still but one day, perhaps we will get there.

The idea is to see about releasing this file publicly one day and continue developing it, perhaps release it somewhat soon (I still need to modify various aspects of it so you can use it on your end), but for now, let me see what feedback I get out of this, depending on the feedback, I will see about going perhaps into developing this fulltime but we shall see.

Here is the youtube link for it :



And please turn the volume up as it was made with a bad microphone.

For now, yeah, just look at it and ask questions or give me some feedback about it (I would prefer to have most of the questions/comments on the youtube video, as I prefer to monitor just that one video and answer questions about it, not monitor 20 different websites and answer on each individually, but it is ok if perhaps you want to just use this website, I will try and just answer individually here as well as much as I can).

Thank you, and I wish you a great day

[legendCNCD]

[Dusk1]

Yeah, that's pretty good but I am going for something else with my thing I believe.

Like, it's not supposed to be a DAW, it's supposed to be this creative space of visualizing information and seeing and acting upon it.

Like, let's say you want to make a funky song, right ? Here is what you need to do or some general ideas :

1.Genre requirments/common tropes :

a.Include a bass guitar.

aa.That bass guitar needs/could have synacoption.

aaa.How to do synacoption.

aaaa.Example 1. (insert in these here notes, written guide, various x and y, example song)
aaab.Example 2.
aaac.Example 3.

ab.That bass guitar needs to finish it's cycle/bar on the 4/4, strongly emphasize a 4/4 rhytm.

aba.How to emphasize 4/4 beat strongly.

abaa.Example 1 (say, play a snare drum at the end of the current cycle before the next one stars to amp it up)
abab.Example 2 (play hi-hat in between the kick and snare)
abac.Example 3 (do this.....)
........

b.Possibly include 80's themed instruments.

ba.What are some example of 80's instruments :

baa. Hear example of instument x.
bab. Hear example of song x how it achieves it.

c.How should the melody play out because of genre expectations.

ca.The melody should emit one of x emotion (uplifting/chill/groovy/danceable)

cb.What is the melody length ? (commonly used in these songs)

cba.Hear example x, read instruction y.

cc.The melody could have a strong cyclical end and start.
.......

And so on and so on, and all of this information, it can be hard to keep track of it all and like, if it could just be a click away, you just click and boom, see tons of mixing tips, click and boom, see tons of melody writting tips.

It's kind of like this "obnoxious/overly organized approach" to making music, write down each and every single information you come by and know you have the system to back you up in working this way.

So you go in here, get inspired by reading all of this information and then, you say "right, seems like I got part of it ok enough for now" and now you go in your DAW and do the song.

Or like, just as a massive library of info, this thing, note down all "viking" or "rap" instruments and h.ave them at a click distance, not scour the internet for it, or "how to use effect x" and "VST y", have it all in here

That's what I am going for, as in, kind of

"Put all/most of music/sognwritting info in one excel" (or as much as you\I\we can)

Just text mostly to not hinder performance of the thing, or if I find a way to add images as well and keep performance still at top, ill do that as well.

[BertKoor]

Just text mostly to not hinder performance of the thing, or if I find a way to add images as well and keep performance still at top, ill do that as well.

What I don't understand: why did you pick Excel?
Like, if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail?

When I was still young we did have spreadsheets. But there was this new invention called HyperText. You'd write short pieces of text, and with a special HyperText Markup Language you could make a clickable link on a word to another short piece of text. Later this was simplified so you could write them 'quick', which in Hawaiian language is 'wiki wiki'.
(note: did you see what I did here with links? how to do that in Excel?)

[suseka2003]

I remember a shareware program called poetry generator.
It can produce lyrics in an instant with some 25000 words vocabulary.
You just select the mood and number of lines and it generates the song.

[legendCNCD]

Just text mostly to not hinder performance of the thing, or if I find a way to add images as well and keep performance still at top, ill do that as well.

What I don't understand: why did you pick Excel?
Like, if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail?

When I was still young we did have spreadsheets. But there was this new invention called HyperText. You'd write short pieces of text, and with a special HyperText Markup Language you could make a clickable link on a word to another short piece of text. Later this was simplified so you could write them 'quick', which in Hawaiian language is 'wiki wiki'.
(note: did you see what I did here with links? how to do that in Excel?)

One can do links in Excel. We use it at work with links to Jira etc.
Now that everyone can access web version of Excel...

[Starbright]

It's an amazing idea, but the interface is atrocious to be honest. I would go for a less cluttered interface.
I'm a songwriter, producer and vocal teacher and tried something similar as well with excel.
But after a data crash and problems to create a coherent interface, I went to the dark side (aka using an AI to prompt an app for that - please don't hate me).
I think a good coherent user interface is the way to go - there's this website with the oblique card system as an example: https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html