Song Map School
Learn Songwriting One Practical Lesson at a Time.
Built from more than forty years of writing songs, performing, teaching, and continually learning the craft.
Song Map School isn’t built on trends, shortcuts, or empty promises.
It’s built on practice.
Inside you’ll find practical workbooks designed to help you build lasting creative habits, understand how songs work, and develop the confidence to trust your own voice.
Whether you’re writing your first song or your hundredth, these lessons are meant to be lived with, written through, and returned to again and again.
What you'll find here:
Song Map School is organized into practical workbooks that build one skill at a time.
Step-by-step songwriting workbooks that guide you from your first notebook to your finished song.
A structured curriculum designed to build confidence through practice, not overwhelm you with theory.
Writing exercises and creative prompts that help you apply each lesson immediately.
Real-world insights drawn from more than forty years of writing, recording, touring, and teaching.
A growing library of lessons you can return to throughout your songwriting journey.
Song Map School is a growing library of practical songwriting workbooks designed to help you build your craft one lesson at a time. Each workbook focuses on one essential part of the songwriting process, offering practical tools, writing exercises, and clear guidance you can immediately apply to your own songs. Together, they form a structured curriculum that helps you build lasting creative habits, understand how songs work, finish more songs, and develop the confidence to trust your own voice. Whether you’re writing your very first song or returning to songwriting after years away, these lessons are meant to be lived with, written through, and returned to again and again.
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Thank You for Joining Song Map School
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If you don’t see the email within a few minutes, check your spam or promotions folder. If it’s still missing, feel free to reach out and I’ll be happy to help.
I’ll also send occasional updates whenever new workbooks, lessons, and creative resources are released.
Until then…keep writing.
Meet the Songwriter Behind Song Map School & Start Being Creative
Hello. My name is Jon Roniger. I’ve been writing songs for more than forty years.
Along the way I’ve written in Nashville, toured professionally, shared stages with incredible musicians, and learned from some remarkable songwriters, including my friend and mentor, Chris Gantry.
What those years taught me is that songwriting isn’t reserved for a gifted few. It’s a craft that grows through curiosity, honest work, and the willingness to keep showing up, even when the songs don’t come easily.
That’s why I created Song Map School.
Everything you’ll find here comes from real writing sessions, real stages, real successes, plenty of failures, and unfinished songs. My goal isn’t to teach you how to write like me. It’s to help you discover how to write like yourself.
If these workbooks help you write one more honest song, then they’ve done exactly what I hoped they would.
If you need to reach me, you can email me at