Where Songs Come to Life

Bob in the Song Lab with the coastal lighthouse mural and guitar wall

Stuck? Spark an idea.
Play it. Write it. Publish it.

Helping inspired songwriters bring their music to the world.

Free phone-first tools for people who write songs — not for people who rip other people’s songs. Bring a hum, a poem, or a guitar.

Spark an idea Play the idea

Your music only. We never fetch or split someone else’s record.

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1. Spark

Get unstuck. 14,000 seeds with Nashville, capo, and tuning. Copy the one you like into Notes.

Open Idea Spark →
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Chord book

Name, five places on the neck, typical key, mode, and neighbor chords. Tap a name in Spark to open the shape.

Open Chord Reference →
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Word Spark

Metaphors, similes, sayings, slang. Search by topic, word, feeling, or lesson. Copy the line into Notes.

Open Word Spark →
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2. Play

Tune, click, capo. Standard, Drop D, Open G, Open D, DADGAD. Same travel-guitar workflow you see on camera.

Open the Play bench →
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3. Write

Hook, structure cards, and a Notes-ready block so the idea survives the rest of the day.

Open the writing desk →
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4. Chart My Song

Type the chords you wrote. Nashville numbers and a rhythm chart. Your song only — no one else’s record.

Open the chart desk →
Coming later

5. My Song, In Parts

Upload or record your demo. Hear voice apart from guitar. No YouTube links. No other people’s tracks.

Watch: Nova Go Sonic →
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6. Release Desk

DistroKid checklist, title block, YouTube description. Then the #MyFirstSong wall.

Go to the channel →

The wall

This mural is the brand. A real lighthouse on a real cliff, painted in the Lab so every song has a place to land.

The finished coastal lighthouse mural in Bob’s Song Lab
The mural beside the Song Lab guitar wall
The Song Lab guitar wall

The method

Phone, ideas, guitar, Suno, DistroKid. No studio required — though the Lab wall is real. Fifty years of writing from the heart, handed to you as tools.

Gear on the bench: Sonicake QGT-01 review →