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0:00There's one area of AI that I personally
0:03have just not given enough attention to
0:05and I think authors in general have not
0:06given enough attention to that I really
0:09regret now. And today we're going to
0:11walk through how to use this different
0:13AI that we haven't talked about before
0:14on this channel to enhance your author
0:17business quite substantially, I think.
0:19And at the very least, if it doesn't
0:21help you make more money or get more
0:22people on your email list or whatever
0:24your goals are, this should just be a
0:27really fun thing that gives you at least
0:30a very rewarding
0:32bonus for your book. So, without further
0:35ado, let's get into it. I am of course
0:37talking about AI music. Now, why why
0:41would we talk about AI music on a
0:43channel that's all about AI for creative
0:45writing? Well, the main reason is
0:48a lot of authors I know already create
0:51like a a Spotify playlist of soundtracks
0:54or things like that that are kind of
0:56totally stylistically similar to the
0:59themes of the book that they are
1:01writing. Uh like I I know one author who
1:03is writing this like really crazy kind
1:06of action film with a very strong female
1:08lead. She was listening to things like
1:10Mad Max Fury Road and stuff like that.
1:13And so, I've seen authors actually
1:15create these playlists and then share
1:16them with their audience as a little
1:19bonus. And I thought, wouldn't it be
1:21cool if we could go a step further and
1:23actually create a soundtrack that is
1:25specifically tailored to our book with,
1:28you know, the different emotional themes
1:30or songs that represent certain scenes
1:32or songs that represent certain
1:34characters and stuff like that and
1:35actually create a entire soundtrack that
1:39we can then
1:40perhaps you could sell it if you want. I
1:42don't know how successful that's going
1:44to be. I think it would be much better
1:46as a reader magnet to get people on an
1:49email list or some kind of bonus that
1:52you give to readers on maybe a Patreon
1:55or something like that just as a way to
1:57sort of enhance what you have. You could
1:59also, if you sell direct, you could
2:02include it as a bonus on on that to say,
2:03"Hey, this is exclusive. If you buy it
2:05from Amazon, you just get the book, but
2:07if you buy it direct from me, you get
2:08like a discount, plus you get the
2:10soundtrack on top, you know?" It's one
2:12of those things that can be leveraged to
2:14increase the value of the offers that
2:16you have
2:17without actually selling it as a
2:19separate product, if that makes sense.
2:21That's how I would use it, that's how I
2:22intend to use it. So, today we're going
2:25to talk about three different methods to
2:27create songs inside of a AI tool called
2:31Suno, which definitely appears to be the
2:33best one at this time. And I'll show you
2:36some mind-bending stuff, results that
2:38I've gotten out of this. And
2:41let's just get into it. So, if if you're
2:44here on
2:46suno.com,
2:48you can log in, and there's actually a
2:50pretty generous free tier. You can do a
2:51lot of this for free to just start out.
2:54However, if you want commercial use for
2:56your songs, which in my case I do, you
2:59do need to be on the paid plan. The paid
3:01plan is not that expensive. It's about
3:04what you'd expect, about like $8, or so,
3:07a month, depending on whether you use
3:09the annual plan or the monthly plan. But
3:13once you get in, you'll be greeted with
3:15something like this. And additionally,
3:18their highest model, the 5.5 model, as
3:20of this recording, is only available on
3:24the paid plan. Although, I'll be honest,
3:26the 4.5 plan was fine. It was great. So,
3:30you don't necessarily need the 5.5 plan.
3:33Regardless, there's a lot you can do
3:35here.
3:36And I'm going to give you give you three
3:38examples of what we could do. But before
3:40we do that, I want to do some prep,
3:42right? Because
3:43we don't just want it to create random
3:45songs, right? We want it to create
3:47random songs that are sort of
3:49tailored to your book.
3:51Now, you could write this in yourself if
3:53you know your book, uh you can, you
3:55know, put descriptions of your
3:57characters, kind of type it it all in.
4:00And and what a song about them might
4:02look like in your mind, right? And I
4:04actually did that uh for one of my
4:06characters, which I'll demonstrate soon.
4:09Uh but another thing you can do is get a
4:13summary of your book.
4:14Uh and this is a book that I have, one
4:16of my first books that I ever published
4:18is called Out of Shadow. It's a young
4:20adult fantasy.
4:22And um I happen to have a what I call a
4:25summary plus document of this book,
4:28which is a just condensed summary, a
4:30very thorough summary, but uh still
4:33smaller than the book itself, that
4:35includes a summary of the plot that
4:38happens in each chapter, a list of all
4:40of the characters in each chapter, a
4:42list of the settings of that chapter,
4:45the conflict, the tropes, and ratings
4:47like spice level, violence level,
4:49swearing level, etc. And then it does
4:50the same for each chapter. I have a
4:52whole automation that does this. I did a
4:55video a while back, you can check my
4:56automation playlist. Uh but you can take
4:59any book, run it through this
5:01automation, and it'll create one of
5:02these documents for you. I find it very
5:04useful for a lot of things.
5:06Uh today we're going to take this
5:07summary plus document, copy the entire
5:09thing, and we're going to go into Claude
5:11projects. I'm going to create a new
5:13project, and we're just going to call
5:15this soundtrack planning.
5:18Something like that. Great black
5:19project.
5:20And then under files, I'm going to add
5:24uh
5:25Out of Shadow summary doc and paste that
5:30whole thing in there.
5:31Add content.
5:33Um
5:34and then in our instructions, we're
5:35going to say something like
5:38you are an expert
5:41uh
5:42film soundtrack composer. Your task
5:46is to work with the user to create
5:50things like a list of song titles for a
5:56soundtrack
5:57based on
5:59the summary document
6:03that you have access to create fully
6:07fleshed out song descriptions
6:11as well as tone and styles
6:15information for each song adhere to the
6:19users preferences
6:22and instructions. All right, so we'll
6:24just do something like that. And then
6:26here, I'm going to say given the summary
6:30doc
6:31I want you to create
6:34a list of
6:36potential
6:38song ideas
6:40for a full soundtrack
6:43based on
6:45the book from the summary doc. I want a
6:49full theme song for each major
6:53character.
6:54We'll say five to six songs
6:59representing
7:01key scenes from the book
7:05and one final song
7:07that will be like the end credit song
7:12and which will be the only song that has
7:17vocals in it. All of the others should
7:21be instrumental
7:23similar to a fantasy movie soundtrack.
7:28All right, I think that's enough and now
7:31we can just let it go and see what kind
7:34of things it gives us. And this is just
7:36the early planning stages. This is just
7:38to try and get a a
7:40of songs that we can do.
7:45All right, so it gave us the whole thing
7:46and it made this look really nice and
7:49visual for me. I actually Let me know in
7:51the comments, do you like it when it
7:52does this because I feel like it's often
7:54way more than I need or ask for and it
7:57almost come becomes annoying sometimes.
7:59I know it looks pretty but like
8:01Claude has been doing this a lot lately
8:03and it's like that's not what I asked
8:05for. Now I have to put instructions to
8:06like specifically format it in a certain
8:08way.
8:09But regardless,
8:11um it gives us a whole bunch of stuff.
8:12So it gave me character themes, gave me
8:14eight of those. It gave me six key
8:17scenes and the end credit song that I
8:20was looking for and each one is
8:21expandable.
8:23Um again, it's not necessarily going to
8:25be this way for you if you do it but
8:27it's how Claude decided to output for
8:30me.
8:31And uh there's some really interesting
8:33stuff here. So I want to first look at
8:35this one. This I have a character named
8:36Name and uh tone earnest and a little
8:39awkward. The warmth is someone forward
8:41bravely. Uh the instrumentation is solo
8:43oboe over light pizzicato strings. A
8:47melody that trips slightly on itself
8:49before finding footing. As the piece
8:51develops, confident brass undertones
8:53emerge. A secondary gentler motif, a
8:55six-note phrase, surfaces whenever Name
8:58and Jack's themes are played in
9:00proximity representing their bond.
9:02All right. Uh so there's some stuff in
9:04here that it's not going to know. So
9:07we're we're going to have to modify this
9:08a little bit but let's
9:10uh let's run with this, okay? So I'm
9:12going to copy this first bit here.
9:14And we're going to go into Suno and
9:17let's see.
9:18Since this is going to be a instrumental
9:21uh song, we're going to go here to
9:24simple and I'm just going to click this
9:27thing that says instrumental on it. Now
9:29it knows to not have any lyrics in it.
9:31Um so
9:33I'm going to paste this here, solo oboe
9:34over light pizzicato strings.
9:37And we can do the six note phrase.
9:39Actually no, we'll we'll take that
9:41surfaces occasionally.
9:44Cuz we're not going to have it interact
9:46with the other characters
9:48theme. That would be a little too
9:49complicated, I think.
9:51But then I'm just going to add a a few
9:53other things. Let's see the tone.
9:56We can add that in here.
9:59Tone.
10:00Earnest and a little awkward and I'll
10:02say
10:04uh I'm going to add style fantasy film
10:07soundtrack and I always like to add
10:10something like
10:11a clear melodic theme uh because I
10:15really like songs, especially in
10:17soundtracks, that have a very clear
10:18theme for that character and it's not
10:20just sort of generic stuff. The second
10:22way I'm going to show you how to do this
10:23can take that to the next level, but
10:25we're just going to run with this right
10:26now.
10:27And we're going to make sure that our
10:28model V 5.5 is selected and hit create
10:32and that's really all you have to do.
10:35Now here in Claude, it named it Grace
10:37Under the Stars. I didn't specify that
10:39in my prompt, so it's going to give me
10:41something totally different.
10:43Stumbling Oboe Quest. So I can edit this
10:46and just be say Grace Under the Stars.
10:50We can put this as Niamh's Theme.
10:53Oh, except
10:59and it is giving me two to look at.
11:02And the nice thing about this is it will
11:05even though it's still generating, the
11:07first part of the song has already been
11:09generated, so you can start playing it
11:11before it's even done. So let's go ahead
11:13and take a listen.
11:17>> [music]
11:23[music]
11:26>> You can see the theme here with the oboe
11:28in there. It definitely has that
11:29lighthearted feel,
11:30right?
11:40>> [music]
11:46[music]
11:55[music]
12:12[music]
12:22>> All right, so I think that's actually
12:23great. It definitely fits the tone that
12:26we asked it for. It does kind of fit the
12:28character as as he is in my mind. So,
12:32I'd be totally happy with taking that
12:34one and putting it on the soundtrack.
12:35Now, you might want to run this a few
12:36times to find something that you might
12:38like better.
12:39Uh but this is this has been method
12:41number one of getting these songs as you
12:45like them. All right, let's move on to
12:47method number two, which is not that
12:49dissimilar.
12:50Uh you can, you know,
12:52go back to Claude, you can copy all of
12:55this as as much as you want, you know.
12:58Um but we're going to actually add a
13:01theme of our own and see how well it
13:05takes that. Now, I've already done this
13:06step, so I'm just going to show you what
13:08I did. Because for my main character for
13:10this book, turns out I already have a
13:12theme in mind for her. Uh I play a
13:15little piano and I as I've just been
13:18playing around on the piano, messing
13:20around, I kind of just came to this
13:23theme that in my mind represented her
13:27journey and her theme and everything
13:29like that. And so, I already had this in
13:31mind, right? This theme in mind.
13:34And one of the things you can do is you
13:36can record a little bit of audio, and
13:38this can be as simple as you just
13:40humming the tune, right? It does not
13:42have to be really out there. It can be
13:45you humming the tune. It can be you just
13:47playing the notes on a piano or what
13:49have you.
13:51And uh I actually recorded this while I
13:53was like in the corner of my gym and and
13:57so I had to be kind of quiet, so I kind
13:59of like raised my my laptop up to my
14:01face, and I just kind of like very
14:03softly hummed the tune of this thing.
14:06And uh this is the recording that we
14:07got. Listen to this.
14:11>> [singing]
14:20[singing]
14:32[laughter]
14:33>> Very cringeworthy. I don't know why I
14:34played that for you guys. Um
14:36I sing better than that, okay? Uh but uh
14:39I was just like trying to do it really
14:41soft, and it just came out really
14:43uh really poorly, but I got the main
14:45notes in there, all right? So, I just I
14:47took that theme and plugged it into
14:50this. So, what you can do here is go to
14:52audio and upload audio or just record it
14:56right here.
14:57And then, from that,
15:00I got this.
15:32>> [music]
15:59[music]
16:18[music]
16:40[music]
17:19>> All right, so clearly an improvement on
17:23what I gave it. I was just shocked at
17:25how well it did given that just like
17:29barely hummed out tune that I gave it.
17:32So if you want to have a little bit more
17:33control over this thing
17:35and especially if you have like a
17:37specific theme that you want to hear
17:39throughout the song, that is a really
17:42great way to do it, I think. So that is
17:45method number two of creating these
17:46things. It's a lot like method number
17:48one but with a little bit more control
17:50and is personally how I'm going to be
17:53doing a lot of these songs because I
17:55tend to be a little bit more musically
17:57musically inclined and I I like to come
18:00up with very clear themes that can then
18:03translate into the into the song. All
18:05right, so that is method number two. Now
18:07let's talk about method number three.
18:09And this is what if we want to add
18:11lyrics, okay? So this end credit song
18:15that I put here, I specified that I
18:17wanted it to have lyrics.
18:18Uh it has not made lyrics for me
18:21and it's actually given me a lot of
18:23stuff here that I don't necessarily
18:26want. Um but I think it would be cool to
18:29incorporate Jack's theme in there, the
18:31the one that I uh just showed you guys,
18:34so we can maybe include that.
18:37But let's let's just ignore most of
18:41this. All right, let's ignore most of
18:43this. I will add I include this tone
18:46here. Let's go to Suno and now here uh
18:49we're actually going to go to advanced.
18:52And I'm going to type this in here just
18:54so we have that. We'll just call it
18:56tone. Actually, that should go here
18:59under styles. And while we're here under
19:01styles, I'm going to say
19:03in the style of an end end credit song
19:08at the end of a film similar to the
19:12songs at the end of the Lord of the
19:16Rings and Hobbit films. I don't know if
19:18it'll understand that reference well
19:20enough to get it, but yeah, we'll see.
19:23So, let's talk about lyrics. Now, there
19:25is a generate lyrics button here and we
19:28can kind of describe what we're looking
19:29for. This is a a song about hope and
19:35about the coming-of-age
19:37journey
19:38of a young
19:41female protagonist
19:44in a fantasy film named Jack.
19:49Let's see.
19:51Go if we go back to this.
19:54I'm just going to ask Claude, can you
19:57give me a small summary of the
20:01arc for Jack.
20:04It'll just go through the summary plus
20:05document that I gave it and and do that.
20:08While we're doing that, we're going to
20:09grab this
20:11this title here, Child of Shadow and
20:13Light. I think that's fine. Title,
20:16Child of Shadow and Light.
20:23I'm going to grab this and say, here is
20:26a summary of Jack's
20:29character
20:31arc.
20:32All right.
20:34So, it has some of that information and
20:35then I'm just going to First, I'm going
20:37to copy this so I have it on my
20:39clipboard. I'm just going to say
20:40generate lyrics.
20:42Write full song.
20:44I'm just going to paste that in there.
20:46All right, so I'm going to have to ask
20:47for a shorter summary. Make it a shorter
20:51summary.
21:05So, we don't necessarily all of that
21:07info.
21:12And we'll let it cook.
21:14All right. So, give me two options here.
21:16I really like this one here on the left.
21:19You tried to tell me I was made for
21:20greater things, but all I saw was dirt
21:21and smoke. A wheel that spun, but never
21:23broke. So, I closed my eyes and walked
21:25into the dark. It's kind of abstract,
21:27but I I think that's appropriate for the
21:29style that I'm looking for here. I am
21:31the child of shadow and light, the clash
21:32of heaven and earth. I am the keeper of
21:34darkness and truth. I am the dream you
21:35forgot. I burned my home, and with it
21:37went my former self, the daughter, the
21:39lover, the friend. And now I'm just a
21:40ghost of them, but even ghosts know
21:42where they're going to end in the end.
21:44I am the shadow You know, there's the
21:45chorus again. Then the bridge, I am the
21:47sky, I am the fire, I am the storm.
21:50I'm the keeper of darkness and truth.
21:51I'm the dream you forgot. I am the child
21:53of shadow and light, etc. All right. So,
21:54we're going to select this option.
21:57Um and so, we have the style information
22:00here still. We can select more options
22:02like vocal gender. We definitely want
22:03this to be female, cuz it's from the
22:05perspective of Jack. Weirdness and style
22:09influence you can uh
22:11uh you can play with as you want, but uh
22:14but we're not going to worry about that
22:16right now.
22:17Uh and I'm just going to
22:19Well, first [snorts] I want I want to
22:20copy some of this stuff, so I've got it
22:22on hand just so I don't lose it. But I'm
22:24going to go ahead and hit create.
22:26All right. So, here's what it sounds
22:28like without the the theme added in.
22:49You tried to tell me I was made for
22:53greater things.
22:56But all I saw was dirt and [music]
22:59smoke.
23:03A wheel that spun but never broke.
23:09So, I closed my eyes
23:12and walked into the dark.
23:18I am [music] the child of shadow
23:22[singing] and light.
23:25The clash of heaven and earth.
23:30All right, not too bad. It's not quite
23:32how I pictured it in my head and I feel
23:34like the
23:35uh I'd like the voice to be a little bit
23:36younger. Let's see what it sounds like
23:38when we added the theme in there and see
23:40what it was able to make of that because
23:42I don't know if it will be able to match
23:44up the lyrics with the theme very well,
23:46but we'll see.
24:00You tried to tell me
24:04I was made [singing]
24:05for greater things.
24:10But all [music] I saw [singing] was dirt
24:13and smoke.
24:16A wheel that [singing and music] spun
24:18but never broke.
24:23So, I closed [music]
24:24my eyes
24:26and walked into
24:29the dark.
24:33I [singing] am the child [music]
24:36of shadow and light.
24:40The clash of heaven and [singing] earth.
24:46Okay, I don't actually hear the theme in
24:47there at all. I did select it as
24:50inspired. So, maybe I need to do
24:52something more like remix
24:54and try that. Let me try it with several
24:56of these, cuz I don't actually know
24:59what
25:00what all of these do in relation to each
25:03other. So, let's try a couple of them.
25:07Again, I am not an expert in this tool.
25:08I've only just started using it and got
25:11really excited, which is why I made this
25:12video.
25:30You tried to tell me
25:33I was made for greater things.
25:39But all I saw [music] was dirt and
25:42smoke.
25:44A wheel that spun but never broke.
25:49So, I closed my eyes
25:53and walked into
25:56the dark.
26:00I
26:01am the child of shadow
26:04and light.
26:06The clash of heaven [music and singing]
26:08and earth.
26:12I am the keeper of darkness and truth.
26:18I
26:19am the dream you forgot.
26:22Okay, there is actually a little bit of
26:24the theme hinted in there. Enough that I
26:26was kind of impressed. So,
26:28so I like that. So, anyway, this is
26:30another way to create songs for your
26:33soundtrack, cuz not everybody writes
26:34fantasy like I am. So, a purely
26:37instrumental soundtrack is not always
26:39going to be the most appropriate. You
26:40might want actual lyrics for a lot of
26:42your songs. So, this is the way you can
26:46do it inside of Suno. You can also ask
26:48Claude or someone else to write your
26:51lyrics for you and then you can just
26:52take those into Suno, whatever you want.
26:55Uh but I do think that uh the version
26:56that they have in Suno is actually
26:57pretty good at creating actual lyrics.
27:00So, there you have it. So, anyway, this
27:02is my my little tutorial about how to
27:04create a full soundtrack for your book.
27:06I think this is really exciting stuff.
27:08You can also use this in conjunction
27:09with AI video and create little videos
27:12um that have a stellar soundtrack.
27:15Personally, uh having done a lot of
27:16editing in the past uh of video and and
27:19stuff like that, I like to get the
27:21soundtrack first and then kind of
27:23conform the events of the video to the
27:27soundtrack. So, um so this I I
27:30definitely plan on uh doing something
27:31like that in the near future. So, uh
27:33hope this video has been interesting for
27:35you and I'll see you in the next video.