Draw a hand of musical challenges: a chord, a scale, a production trick, sometimes a Malus. Then make something with it in 20 minutes. Built for producers, songwriters and composers who are done staring at a blank page.
Three steps. Repeat at your own pace: daily if you're on fire, weekly like most of us. Your output and your craft compound either way.
Tap Draw. Pull 1 to 6 cards across chords, scales, instruments, tempo and more, plus a Malus if you dare. Lock the ones you love, redraw the rest.
Hit Play and a 20-minute timer starts. Your DAW or notebook is the only other tool you need. The constraints are non-negotiable. That's the whole point.
Upload your take on the draw, or paste a SoundCloud, YouTube or Spotify link. Other musicians hear how you handled the same brief.
Pull a card and you know what to do in two seconds: a type, a headline you can act on, and a short brief behind it. The harder the card, the rarer the draw. Add a Malus and the hand gets brutal. No music degree required.
Every card is hand-written by working musicians. We don't generate, we curate. The deck keeps growing, and your draw is never the same twice.
Triads, 7ths, 9ths, slash, sus, polychords. Roman numerals included.
Major, modal, jazz, exotic, micro-tonal, octatonic, whole-tone.
BPM ranges, odd meters, polyrhythms, polymeter, swing percentages.
Acoustic, electronic, ethnic, found sounds, vocal techniques, prepared piano.
Compression, sidechain, parallel routing, reverbs, mid-side, saturation.
Density, register, dynamics, style emulation, atmospheric moods.
Verse-chorus, AABA, rondo, melodic contours, lyrical angles.
Hard constraints. The rules you don't want, but need.
Multi-card briefs. Whole sessions in a single draw. Time-boxed.
We're not an AI generator, a sample pack, or a music theory app. Here's where we sit.
Real tracks made from real draws: the latest takes from the community feed.
“ComposerDeck gets me making things I would never have tried on my own. No more blank page: the cards really challenge me, and some of those sketches turned into real tracks.”
Yes. Daily draws, profiles, the blog, one custom deck and up to 10 audio submissions a month are free forever. ComposerDeck Pro unlocks the depth: unlimited decks and submissions, your full draw history, PDF and PNG exports, advanced stats, named studio presets and custom deck cover art. The core practice will always stay free.
No. Cards are the brief, not an exam: each one says what to do in plain words. Swap any card you don't understand.
Yes. We're tool-agnostic. Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Bitwig, Reaper, paper: whatever you compose with.
No. We help you compose, we don't compose for you. That's a feature, not a missing one.
Free forever. No credit card. Daily streak starts the moment you draw. Want the depth? See what Pro adds.