FREE - PRINTABLE - BLANK MUSIC SHEETS

Can you remember every song? Every pitch, chord, scale? Every lyric and song form?

Me neither. That's why we write down stuff. Below are blank pages for the most common ways to write down music. Formatted for print out!

I've also included a brief description of some ways you can use each.

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Learning Tools For Practicing and Song Sheets
 

2026 Practice Book | Songdog Music
  • 2026 Practice Book | Songdog Music

This book gives you two vital things for your music practice: a thought process, and a record keeping tool.

A regular habit of playing your music, with simple forethought and directed effort; this is the only thing separating a beginning player from your musical heroes.

Get this FREE GUIDE: How to think about and plan practicing your instrument How to track your effort and learn from your own learning

Great for accomplished players, NECESSARY for BEGINNERS

Free
Daily Practice Session - Template | Songdog Music
  • Daily Practice Session - Template | Songdog Music

More specific than the yearly Practice Book, this template gently guides you through planning your practice effectively. Learn to think like a musician by utilizing the practice topics and detailed instructions. Think of it as your musical personal trainer . . . in a PDF!

Free
Super Lead Sheet template
  • Super Lead Sheet template

Lead Sheets are a mainstay for musicians writing down songs. My version gives you a template to use and some thoughts and procedures to help you through learning your songs.

I always felt lead sheets needed more information and more structure for folks to easily figure out how to write their music down. So I made these. They were better, Super, if you will, so I made a pun on the famous Marshall amp.

If the DOCX file type doesn't work for you, write me and I'll format so you can use this.

Free

STAFFS and TABS

With various lines, clefs, instruments, layouts

All formatted for ease of use and ease of printing

 

single line staff with percussion clef
  • single line staff with percussion clef

single line staff with percussion clef

For writing rhythms. It is also good for laying out chord changes: great for making Lead Sheets! Percussion clef is included - so it doesn't just look like a bunch of single lines. Which is what it is. And yes, you could Read more

For writing rhythms. It is also good for laying out chord changes: great for making Lead Sheets! Percussion clef is included - so it doesn't just look like a bunch of single lines. Which is what it is. And yes, you could use notebook paper and draw a percussion clef, and write rhythms to your heart's content (this is cooler). It's that simple. That's the point. Rhythm learning is easy if you just focus on rhythm only.

Free
5-line staff with percussion clef
  • 5-line staff with percussion clef

5-line staff with percussion clef

Percussion Clef is the most versatile clef we own. You simply assign whatever pitch/sound element you want and then focus on RHYTHM! Good for laying out chord changes: great for making Lead Sheets! Rhythm learning is easy if you just focus on rhythm only.

Free
staff paper
  • staff paper

staff paper

Staff Paper: five lines, four spaces, as it has been for about 400 years. You can draw your own percussion clef, treble clef, bass clef (or several others, if you're specially learned!). If this thing scares you, then you haven't paid attention to what Songdog has been teaching.

Free
guitar TAB
  • guitar TAB

guitar TAB

This is very handy for ideas that are more visual, and pattern oriented.

Free
guitar TAB & treble clef staff
  • guitar TAB & treble clef staff

guitar TAB & treble clef staff

This is one of the most handy kinds of music paper - because you can use either, or both, notation systems.

Free
uke TAB & treble clef staff
  • uke TAB & treble clef staff

uke TAB & treble clef staff

This is one of the most handy kinds of music paper - for ukulele - because you can use either, or both, notation systems.

Free
Bass TAB and Bass Clef Staff
  • Bass TAB and Bass Clef Staff

Bass TAB and Bass Clef Staff

For laying down the bassline. This is one of the most handy kinds of music paper - because you can use either, or both, notation systems.

Free
Bass TAB_5 String & Bass Cleff Staff
  • Bass TAB_5 String & Bass Cleff Staff

Bass TAB_5 String & Bass Cleff Staff

For laying down the bassline - - when you're extra. This is one of the most handy kinds of music paper - because you can use either, or both, notation systems.

Free

Chord Charts & Neck Charts

The best chord charts and neck charts on the planet! 
Clear and accurate, providing beginners charts that are visually helpful for learning and remembering chords, scales and more. Awesome features which help beginners get a solid visual image of how their instrument works:

*Show string thickness

*Show fret markers and nuts where needed

*Realistic proportions to help your visual understanding of the fretboard

*Large enough to draw on with either a pdf editor or printed out and using a pencil

*Neck Charts! Not as common as chord charts, these things can help you learn every inch of the fretboard!


Plus they are beautiful, thanks to the brilliant Songdog graphics department!

 

guitar chord charts - open position with nut & dots
  • guitar chord charts - open position with nut & dots

guitar chord charts - open position with nut & dots

Shows the nut, and fret marker dots at 3 & 5

Free
guitar chord charts - moveable position
  • guitar chord charts - moveable position

guitar chord charts - moveable position

Chord charts with no nut or dots, so you can use them to write chords in any upper position on the guitar neck.

Free
guitar neck charts - 12 fret
  • guitar neck charts - 12 fret

guitar neck charts - 12 fret

This chart allows you to mark the entire fretboard up to the 12th fret - this is complete because above that it just repeats.

Free
guitar neck charts - 17 fret
  • guitar neck charts - 17 fret

guitar neck charts - 17 fret

This one goes up to the 17th fret - this is helpful if you are notating a scale in every position. Sometimes you'll begin higher than open position and therefore want to carry on your patterns farther up than 12th fret.

Free
uke chord charts - open position with nut and dots
  • uke chord charts - open position with nut and dots

uke chord charts - open position with nut and dots

Shows the nut and fret marker dots at 3 & 5

Free
uke chord charts - moveable position
  • uke chord charts - moveable position

uke chord charts - moveable position

This one has no nut or dots, so you can use it to write chords in any upper position on the ukulele neck.

Free
uke neck charts - 12 fret
  • uke neck charts - 12 fret

uke neck charts - 12 fret

This chart allows you to mark the entire fretboard up to the 12th fret - this is complete because above that it just repeats.

Free
uke neck charts - 17 fret
  • uke neck charts - 17 fret

uke neck charts - 17 fret

This one goes up to the 17th fret - this is helpful if you are notating a scale in every position. Sometimes you'll begin higher than open position and therefore want to carry on your patterns farther up than 12th fret.

Free