GUIDE · REPERTOIRE

Organize the songs
you're learning.

Most musicians keep their songs in a pile: a notes app, a spreadsheet, Ultimate Guitar favorites, YouTube bookmarks and memory. Here's how to turn the pile into one list that also tells you what to practice.

Why not just a spreadsheet?

A spreadsheet is a good start. You can list titles, keys and a “learning / know it” column. Where it stops is everything around the song: the chart you read from, the lesson video, the recording of last week's take, and when you last actually played it. Those end up in other apps, and the spreadsheet slowly goes out of date because nothing updates it for you.

In Songroost the list updates itself: a tick when you play a song, a rating when you're ready to change it, and everything else for that song in the same place.

1. Get the list in

On an empty library, Let's add your songs takes a list typed or pasted in any form. Already have a spreadsheet? Use Paste a list with the titles, or a CSV. You review the matches before anything is added. Coming from another app? Import SongbookPro and Import OnSong are under Playlists ▸ + List.

Don't aim for everything today. Start with the songs you actually play, then add the ones you're learning.

2. Rate each part, not just the song

You might sing a song well but not play the solo yet. Songroost rates each part you play, such as Acoustic, Vocals or Sing + play, on one scale:

Pick the parts you play in Settings. A rating is one tap from any song, so it stays honest without becoming a chore.

3. Keep the chart and links with the song

Open a song to add a chart: paste chords over lyrics, paste ChordPro, upload a PDF or Guitar Pro file, or bring one in from a web page with + From web…. + Add link keeps a lesson, a backing track, a Spotify or YouTube version, or your Moises mix next to it. Nothing to hunt for next time.

4. Let practice update the list

When you play a song, tap ✓ Played. That's the whole log. Over a few weeks it answers the questions a spreadsheet can't: which songs you haven't touched in a month, and which ones you keep coming back to. On the Practice tab, Songs I haven't played lists your catalog with the never-played and longest-ago songs first.

5. Slice it any way you like

Filter the catalog by instrument, tag or rating, and sort by last played. A Smart list keeps a rule up to date for you, for example every song you rate Solid or better on acoustic. That's your busking list, and it grows as you learn.

Fill the gaps one at a time

A long list always has holes: songs with no length, parts you haven't rated, no key, no link to practice from. On the Catalog tab, 🧹 Organize picks one kind of gap, such as Set a duration or Rate the parts I claim, and walks you through the songs missing it, one at a time. A duration has a lookup, so it's usually one tap. To fix many songs at once, select them and use the bar at the bottom.

Keeping it

Your list is yours. Settings → Back up everything downloads it as one file, and every text chart can be exported as ChordPro, the open format other chord apps read.

Bring your list over.

Paste the songs you play and see your library take shape in a few minutes.

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Public beta: free for up to 50 songs, no card. Questions: support@songroost.com.

New here? Get your first library together, then prepare a set for rehearsal.