Resources for Creatives
This page contains tools, guides, and creative exercises for students participating in music, songwriting, filmmaking, and other creative projects. Campers may use these resources during class and continue accessing them outside camp for practice, revision, and independent exploration.
Songwriting Tools
These online tools can help you explore rhymes, check syllables, develop melodies, review music theory, and establish a steady tempo. They are starting points rather than substitutes for your own creative judgment. Always speak and sing your lyrics aloud before making a final decision.
RhymeZone
Find perfect rhymes, near rhymes, synonyms, phrases, descriptive words, and related words.
Lyric Hyphenator
Juicio Brennan’s Lyric Hyphenator separates English words into syllables. This is especially helpful when setting lyrics to melodies or entering lyrics into music-notation software.
Always double-check names, unusual words, slang, and words whose pronunciation changes when sung.
Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker
Create a simple melody and drum pattern using a visual grid. Song Maker works best in the Google Chrome browser.
Review rhythm, scales, intervals, chords, Roman numerals, chord progressions, and other music-theory fundamentals.
Soundbrenner Online Metronome
Choose a tempo, use tap tempo, and experiment with time signatures, subdivisions, and accents.