Recording Session Track Sheet
Open a session file months later and know what every track is, how it was recorded and which take was the keeper, without soloing them one by one.
MU-21 1 page
Music and performance · MU-25
Song Writing and Demo Log
A songwriting and demo log — every song in progress with its stage, co-writers and agreed share, plus a list of demo versions so the current one is clear.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Find and finish the idea from last spring instead of losing it on a phone, and have the writing credits written down from the day they were agreed.
Who it is for
Songwriters, co-writers, bands with more than one writer, and anyone recording demos at home who has more versions than they can name.
How to use it
- Add each song when it starts, with a working title and where it stands.
- Write the co-writers and the share you agreed against it, with the date.
- Log every demo as a version, with where it was recorded and where the file lives.
- Note who each version was sent to and what came back, so feedback lands on the right version.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: A writer's own record of songs in progress — where each one stands, who has a hand in it, and which demo version is the current one. Who wrote what is best written down on the day, while everyone still agrees; what the share is, and how it is registered, is between the writers and their society or publisher.
Write-on lines: Writer(s) · Project / album / batch · Year
Songs in progress
Table, 7 rows: Started · Working title · Key / tempo · Stage · Co-writers and agreed share · Next step
Demo versions — every recording of a song, so the current one is never in doubt
Table, 5 rows: Date · Song · Version · Recorded where / how · File name / saved where · Sent to / feedback
Questions
Why does the sheet not suggest how to split a song?
Because that is between the writers, and different writers, publishers and collecting societies do it differently. The sheet gives you a place to record what you agreed and when; the figure is yours.
What counts as a new version?
Anything you might later need to tell apart — a new arrangement, a new lyric, a re-recording. If you would ever say 'not that one, the other one', give it its own row.
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