I have written a song and found the guitar chords to play for it but I don't know how to put it on paper other than the words and chords?

Well my first advice would be to commit all your ideas to tape or to a sound file on your computer as soon as possible . . .

We definitely don't want you to forget them! If you have an idea for a guitar melody, it can most likely be played using the strings that make up the chord in question. Keeping the chord held down, play each of the strings individually until you find the note / notes you are looking for.In order to to transcribe a guitar melody onto paper, you will have to become familiar with "guitar tablature".

This process / system essentially involves drawing 6 straight lines, one for each of the six strings on your guitar (the top line represents the highest pitched string). Take the first note of your guitar melody .. . There are two things that need to be documented: which string is being played, and where on the guitar the string is being held down, ie what fret of the guitar is being used.

Let's say you are playing the "A" string on the second fret. You would then write the number "2" on the 5th line (at the extreme left of the line). You then move on to your next note (gradually moving to the right on the page), then the next.

If a significant space occurs within your riff, try to represent this as best you can by spacing out the numbers sufficiently as you write them. Further information on guitar tablature can be found using the links below.

I know that the sheet music system has ways of showing what the melody should be doing (say, of a piano or guitar melody line), and still including the guitar chords as well: I think in sheet music the chords are often written above the other part of normal sheet music, in line with where they should be played according to the other instruments. Drum beats also have a system of notation which you can read about at the sites below. As for actually being able to write what the drums are doing as well as the melody: I don't have direct knowledge of how this is done professionally.

Although, just to have a "record" of how you want the song to sound, I guess you could add a line of the drum notations perhaps underneath where you have written the melody? Unfortunately, the only way I know to really write this down in a systematic way whereby someone else would understand exactly how it should sound and what each instrument is doing and when, is the official sheet music way. It's not that difficult a system though - especially if you play music yourself, I think you could pick up the ideas of it without too much problem?

Perhaps if you are about to show your song to someone with the idea of getting it recorded though, I would recommend finding someone who understands sheet music well and finding some way for them to sit down with you, listen to the song being played, and check that what you have written is right. I think you will find some more useful info online if you google the phrases "how to write sheet music" or "writing sheet music" in quotation marks. Good luck!

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