Making Music with AI: Getting Started with Suno

1. Introduction: Hey, everyone. In this class, we're going to talk about Suno Suno AI, and how you can use it to create complete professional sounding songs from simple text prompts. We're gonna learn all about the platform from signing up to creating songs, understanding the pricing and credit system, and some tips for mastering prompts by writing very clearly and using metatags. We'll also develop some practical workflow for generating music with this tool. And lastly, we'll talk about some of the ethical things you should think about, as in just because you can doesn't mean you should, types of questions that come up with this stuff. So let's dive in. 2. What Is Suno AI?: Okay. So let's talk about Suno and what it is. So Suno is a text to music generator that creates complete songs with vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation. So you can tell it to create a whole song, not just the lyrics, not just the beat, not just the guitar part. This makes complete and finished tracks. And it's so easy, it's almost scary. So the company was founded in 2023, and it's somehow affiliated with Microsoft. I don't totally understand it, but I think it's a partner with Microsoft, which is funny because all the fonts on the website are very 1990s Apple, but whatever. So the main thing that makes this different than other tools for creating songs with AI is that it does the whole song. And there are a few apps I've seen now that create whole songs and not just like drum loops or this or that. But this is the most popular at the moment, so I thought I'd dive into it. So like all AIs, Suno is using pattern recognition to generate songs. So what this means is that it's trying to do what is most likely to happen, right? So that means it's going to be very hard to get it to do something unique and original, but not impossible. You just have to prompt it correctly. So, if it's using pattern recognition, it's obviously trained on something. So let's go to another video and talk about what Suno is trained on. M 3. What We Need to Know About Suno's Training Data: Okay, so we'll talk more about the kind of ethics of using a tool like this at the end. But for now, let's talk really briefly about the ethics of how this was created. In a recent interview, actually, in a recent lawsuit, the company said that it was trained on basically every audio file on the Internet. So that's a lot. And so, of course, it's been a company has been sued and sued and sued, and they're in 1 million lawsuits right now, which is how we're learning some of this stuff. Let me read you a quote. Saying this is bad. I'm just I think it's important to know where the training data comes from whenever we're interacting with an AI. So here's the quote. It is no secret that the tens of millions of recordings that Suno's model was trained on, presumably including recordings whose rights are owned by the plaintiffs in this case. This is from a court case. Sno wrote in a filing Thursday, adding that Sno was trained on as many recordings as can be located. Accordingly, Suno's training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet. Abiding by paywalls, password protection and the like, combined with similarly available text descriptions. So, um, that's not awesome. I plagiarized virtually every artist that exists, but it's a tool that exists now. You can decide whether or not you want to use it or not, but I am going to use it for the purposes of this class. And I'll talk to you a little bit about my feelings towards using it at the end. But for now, I think it's okay. 4. What Suno Can and Can't Do: Okay, let's talk about some things that Sno can and can't do. Things that it's good at doing is generating complete songs quickly, like it takes less than a minute. It knows a wide range of genres. It knows a lot of lyrics. It's good at instrumental only tracks. Also, in addition to stuff with lyrics, it always gives you multiple versions to choose from. I think by default, it gives you two. You can also use it to extend songs, create covers, upload some of your own audio and ask it to do something based on that. For that reason, I really like it as, like, idea generation tool. It's actually pretty good at that. And then limitations, things it can't do. It's not good at cloning. Like, if you said, recreate this track exactly as it is, but with a male singer, it's not so good at that. It's gonna change it. So that's been a little hard for me to find ways to use it because it's not really listening to everything I'm asking. But there are ways around. And then other limitations, obviously, legal copyright stuff, whatever. So you're going to hear me say there a whole bunch throughout this class, but I'm going to encourage you to not just use these tools to just flat out make stuff, but to treat these tools as a collaborative partner. I think that's where their real value shines and lets you really do some really cool stuff. Okay, so let's talk about how to get Suno set up. 5. Free, Pro, and Premier Plans Compared: Okay, let's talk about signing up for Sno. Quite easy. They have technically three plans. There's the free, the P, and the premiere plan. The free plan lets you do really not very much at all. So use it as a trial, but then you kind of got to get off the free plan. If you want to do any kind of serious music making with this, you're gonna need one of the paid plans. And they're not very expensive. $8 a month for the pro plan. That's what I've signed up for. And that's, you know, $8 for a professional tool. If you're gonna use this a lot, that's a pretty reasonable price. Um, and let me just say, I don't work for Suno. I don't have any connection with them at all. So I'm not, like, promoting them. I'm just explaining the tool. So premiere plan. Now, what are the biggest differences between these? One of them is the credits. So you get 2,500 credits with the Pro plan, 10,000 credits with the Premiere plan. I'll talk about credits in just a minute in the next video, okay? So just hold on to credits for a minute. Um, you get commercial use rights. That means you can sell it what you make. You get personas and editing. You can split songs into 12 stems. You can upload up to 8 minutes of audio, add vocals, new features, add on credits. Priority Queue. That's another one. So I'll talk about that when I talk about credits, too. And honestly, the premiere plan looks really about the same, other than you get a lot more credits. But you also get access to Sno Studio, which isn't showing us here. So Sno Studio is its own little audio editor. So without that, it's just generating audio files, but with Sno Studio, you're getting sort of a Da like thing. Okay, let's go to a new video and talk about the credit system. 6. Understanding Suno's Credit System: Okay, let's talk about credits really quick. So a lot of AI apps work on a credit system. And the reason for this is that rendering AI stuff is very expensive for these companies. Here's what I mean. When you write a prompt in Sunu and you say, Make me a song that sounds like I don't know, Lady Gaga, then what it does is that request gets sent to a server somewhere, and that server has to do a lot of work to generate that audio file. And that is expensive. So when you buy a plan with these companies, you get a certain amount of credits. So it's not like a subscription plan where you can just buy a subscription and then do unlimited amount of things. Some AI tools are like that. But in this one, you get credits. Now, don't worry. The credits are quite generous. I've never used up mine in a month. So in the pro plan, you get 2,500 credits a month, okay? It costs about five credits to make a song. So 2,500 credits, you can make 500 songs a month. That's a lot. If you get the premiere plan, you can make 2000 songs a month. That's crazy. So, just remember about five songs per credit, okay? And you can see over here how many credits I have because I'm just on the pro plan. So I have 2,340 credits, and that's just from, you know, goofing around with it. So I have a lot. Now, credits do not roll over, as I understand it. So if you have some leftover at the end of the month, you lose them. You can buy what they call top off credits to if you're close to being able to do something and you just want a few more to finish up something in a month, you can do that. But otherwise, the amount of credits you get is dependent on which plan you're on. Oh, and I forgot to mention something. The priority queue. I was going to mention that. That means that when you submit a request for something to be processed, so you type a prompt, and then you say process that, like, make that audio file, it goes to a server, and then it waits in line. It waits in a queue. So if you're on the free program, you're in the back of the line. If you are on any of the paid programs, you get to zip to the front of the line. So your stuff will get processed faster. That's basically all that means. 7. Creating Your Account and Navigating the Interface: Okay, so once you log in and create an account and sign up, this is what it looks like on the inside. So let's do a quick walk through of the features here. So first, go to the top, go to this area. Make sure you're on simple. Okay? We'll talk about custom in a few minutes. Okay? This shows how many credits I have remaining, and this shows what version of Suno I'm on. I am on Version five P Beta. You can go back to a different version if you want. Okay, so here's where you're going to describe a song. We'll come back to that in just a second. You can give it some examples for inspiration. It's got some ideas for some tags here. And we'll come back to that. On the left, we have home where you create stuff, which is where we are now, the studio, which is the thing you have to have the highest tier to have access to Library, which shows you everything you've already created, search Hooks, which is kind of a new thing, I think, where you can create sort of a hook library. Notifications, an upgrade and some stuff at the bottom. Over here on the right, you have what it calls your workspace. So you can search through here, listen to things you've made. A lot of things were just already here, kind of all this stuff except for a few that I made just playing around. But this is your main workspace where you can kind of look at what's going on. Now, back to over here where we put our prompt. We can add an audio file. We can just sing something if we want. We can upload a song. We can add lyrics. So if we add lyrics here, we're going to type in not the lyrics themselves, but the prompt for the lyrics. So I'm not going to write lyrics. Uh let's go back to simple. I'm just going to click instrumental I want this to be instrumental. And then I can add some ideas or I can just type. Okay? So let's just type. Let's just say make a song about Bananas in the style of what's like the craziest style you could think of? Um, Death Metal song about bananas with a female singer and really over active drummer. How about that? Let's see what happens. So I'm gonna click Create. And I'll do this in real time here, okay? Like, I'm not gonna stop and fast forward. Um, it's making. There we go. Looks like this one, be done. Still thinking. Oh, okay, this one's done. Bananas of the Pit. That's crazy. I guess I did tell it rental, didn't I? That's crazy. Let's listen to the other one. Okay, let's try changing it just a little bit. Let's do it in the style of Let's, like, name an artist Taylor Swift. Style of Taylor Swift with a female singer and a really overactive drummer. And then let's get rid of the instrumental and the overactive drumer. Let's just say a Taylor Swift song about bananas. Let's just do. Okay, here we go. Couldn't generate that. Your prompt contains an artist's name. Oh, that's interesting. So because I said Taylor Swift, it can't do it. Huh, that's interesting. Okay, I'm gonna change it to a female pop vocal. There it goes. We'll do this one in real time, too, just for fun. Banana queen. L. Peel back the morning. Yellow on my plate. Breakfast in a heartbeat. I'm running kind of late. Definitely has a holes in. I run in my backpack. Sweet on my mind. Pocket size sunshine. Any place. Anytime. Banana queen, I'm going bananas Ho and my pajamas B A magic. One bits banana queen. I'm going bananas, dripping that co like tropic banners, Belt, feel it. Bans in the kitchen, you and me in this food addiction. Like it in a smooth. He's spinning to his goal. Cheryl and my best friend Secret Sweep told Up and at the counter, cream on her lips. Turn little moments into big time hits. One for the rush. Two for the gross, three little bites. No, I can't move. Four in a row. I'm lost in the taste, five, six, seven, not a crumb to wait. Banana, queen. I'm going banana Sing it loud in my pajamas D A magic. On automatic. Banana, queen, I'm going bananatriping that col tropic manners. Feel it, feel it, dance in the kitchen, fewing me in this diction. La, La. Okay, that was wild. Um, it's freaky, you know, it's freaky what this thing can do. Let's go to a new video and talk more about generating stuff. 8. Simple Mode—Your First Song: Okay, now it's your turn. I want you to make a song if you have this available to you. So here's how we're going to do it. I'm going to delete that. Make sure you go to simple mode up here. And then write your prompt. So when you write a prompt, try to include four things genre, mood theme, style, okay? And you can think about style as instrumentation, also. So something like Genre could be reggae, mood, could be happy theme could be dancing in the moonlight and style could be guitars, bass and drums, something like that. So the more specific you can, the better. I'll give you some more tips on prompt writing in a little bit. And once you're done, click Create down here and you'll get two songs here. Now, when you get them, you can play them. You can like them. You can share them. And you've got some controls over here. You can create playlists, move to a workspace, publish. Now, if you want to share this with anyone, if you want anyone to hear it, you need to hit Publish and then save it and then copy the link. And then someone can get to it without even logging in. You can just send them that link. You can also delete it or edit it. This remix edit is a little tricky to use sometimes. I I open an editor. This is different than the studio feature. This is just an editor. So if I say replace section, it's going to let me get into different options for modifying the whole piece. 9. Creating Instrumentals: Okay, let's go back to an instrumental track, since that is what a lot of people use this for. And let's go to home. And then create, I guess, we could have gone just to create. So let's make it instrumental. And let's say you're making a background track for something. So you have a I don't know, podcast. Let's say you have a podcast, and you want background music. So just write exactly that. Just say background music for podcast. It's a sad emotional tone. Use strings and clarinet as a soloist. That sounds nice. Slow, somber tempo. Talk about that. And let's try it. So instant podcast background music. This is where I have a little bit of a problem with it, but that's okay. We can check it out. Sober interlude. Let's hear. Okay, I'll stop it there, but you get the point. That was gorgeous. Um, I rather love that one. I might keep that. So there you go. Crazy instant background music. 10. Introduction to Custom Mode: Alright, now let's go over to custom mode, and this is going to give us a lot more control. So once you get good at using Sno, I would recommend basically being always in custom mode. You're going to get a lot better results. So let's look at a few of things we have. First is that we have the lyric prompt is open, so we can say we can either write the lyrics or a prompt for the lyrics. I think I said that wrong before. I'll show you how to do that in a minute. Styles, this is the same as before, so we can write whatever we want in terms of style and what we're looking for advanced options. We can exclude styles. We could say, do not make it country or whatever. We can choose the gender of the vocalist, the lyrics mode, manual and Auto. So this is what I was talking about before. If we say manual, it means I'm going to type in the lyrics. If we say Auto, it means we're going to describe some lyrics and it's going to create them. And we've got some choices here. Weirdness is fun. I haven't experimented with this yet, but it sounds fun. And style influence, how much of that style do we want? We can give it a title and tell it where to save. Now, there's a couple more things in here that are where the real, I think, power of this thing, lies. And that is up here in these three tabs Audio, persona, and Inspo. So let's look at those now. 11. Using Audio and Personas: Okay, so with these three features, if we go to the audio tab, we can upload. So we can upload something and say, Make it sound like this. Or we could say, use the beat from this or copy the harmony from this, or there's a lot you can tell it to do with the thing that you upload. We can also record something, so we can just say, we can just sing, blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah blah and have it create a song out of it. Let's try that. Hi Hi Hi. Okay. Alright, now we're going to have it make a version of that song. Okay, that's just the actual thing I made. Okay, so now I've got some styles ideas here. I'm still saying a dreamy pop song with acoustic guitar. That's cool. Let's see if it can incorporate my vocal into. Hey, Hey is the other one? Hey. Hey. Hey. That is just ridiculous. So that's the audio tab. Alright, next, let me show you the persona tab. This one is great. This is kind of like other AIs have this where you can kind of create some instructions that stay with it. So you can create a persona based on one of the songs you've made. Let's try this. You can name it. You can write in a whole bunch of stuff. You can say, This is what my style is like and describe your style of music a whole bunch as much as possible. Um and save it and a description, and it should it doesn't need to be public if you don't want to. It should use that when it's creating anything new, as long as you assign the persona to this project. And the same thing with InspoT is inspiration. Pick a playlist of your own songs to explore. Only your music will be used to shape the sound. So you can't upload anything here, but you can say, all the songs in this playlist are really great, and I'd like to make more stuff like that. So those are the three options in advanced mode, custom mode. Okay. 12. Writing Effective Style Prompts: Okay, let's talk a little bit more about writing really good prompts for Sno. So remember before I told you about the kind of four main things that you should have in the prompt, genre, mood, instrumentation, and style. Now, if you're doing vocal music, if your music is going to have a vocalist, then think of that last one as vocal style. That's a good place to put in what the vocal style is. And because I'm a big advocate for just being, like, super explicit with AI, you can just do this genre, pop. Just do it with, like, a semicolon. Mood. Dreamy. Instrumentation, acoustic guitar, accordion, Rhodes organ. That would be fun. Let's say drums. Drums. And then vocal style. Let's say, Oh, what's his name? That singer who's, like, so distinctive Tom Waits. We could do advanced things here. So let's say lyrics about um, taking online classes when it's a nice day outside. And let's put the weirdness up to a lot. And created. Let's see what it means. This might be fun. Right, so I put the name Tom Waits in it, so it can't do that. So let's say vocal style Raspi. Raspi and Old. That'll be fun. Okay, so now it can make it because I didn't say an artist's name. Okay, let's hear it. Co. Sun spills through my bedroom blinds. Kyla says, join the call. Friends are sending Park Bench banks. I'm staring at this way. Ding, camera ready smile. Teacher as if we're all inside there's a game in progress. There's that weirdness. So I'm stuck in online classes on a perfect day blown slight away. Kind of like that. We ones outside I'm clicking, okay. Trapped in a turtle a box. Alright, I definitely got weird. They're not kidding with that weirdness control. Went to chaos mode, but it was pretty cool. 13. Metatags—Structuring Your Song: Okay, next, let's talk about some extra things you can do, some kind of hidden things that you can do in Sno. And we're going to start with metatags. Now, you might know what metatags are. They're just any sort of, like, just descriptor tag. So in brackets, you can type and create metatags. Now, what do they do? These will dictate the song's structure, okay? So this is really cool. You can say, intro, close bracket, slow acoustic guitar only. And then you could say Verse, drums Enter, dynamic increases, fancy way to say it gets louder. Distorted guitars and bass enters. Let's do one more chorus. Let's say, lyrics about grilled cheese sandwiches. And then I want to hear the verse again, the verse again, chorus. Outro, whatever. One pro tip. I found that when it's using the tag intro, it doesn't work awesome. So try instrumental intro. Sometimes the word intro seems to confuse it. Okay? So you can use these tags for, um, structure, kind of, like, flags. Like say, like, I need this to happen, I need this to happen. And there's a few more things you can do with tags, too. You can talk about the hook, so you could say, Hook. Less than an octave in range, lyrics about potatoes. And am I missing either? Potatoes? I don't know. That's bad word to write. Let's say no. Yes. What is. And jelly beans in a gang vocal style. So you can tell it what the hook is. You can give it mood, energy, instrument, and vocal style. All of those can be tags at work here. I'll give you a list of tags, if you like, so you can play around with them. But before we go, we kind of got to hear what this sounds like, right? This weird little prompt we just wrote. So let's try it. Let's hear it. Intro. Slow. He coasted guitar. Less than octave and range. So potatoes and jelly beans in a gang vote. That's really funny. Slow. It's reading the tags. Now, I think it's reading the tags because I put all of this in the lyrics field and not the styles field. In previous versions, you put all of that stuff in the lyrics field. But I think now we're supposed to put it in the style field. So let me try that again. And hopefully, it actually interprets this and not doesn't actually sing what I'm asking it to do. Let's see. Sounds a bit more like what I asked. Mm hm. Got a cool guitarist. Okay, so obviously it worked well except it's not obeying my lyric prompt, and that's probably because the lyrics have to go up here and the instructions need to go down here. Another way it would have worked before, it would have sounded good before if I would have kept it in here, kept everything in lyrics prompt, but turned off the lyrics mode down here. Right now, it's in manual, so it says it's just going to sing the lyrics that are in the blocks. So if I would have done this, it would have done better. Anyway, let's move on. Okay. 14. Extending and Continuing Songs: Okay. In this video, I want to talk about three different tools that are here, three different features. The first is Extend. So if I go to I think, yeah, this is the one I sung. Hey. There we go. So this is only 8 seconds long. Hey. Hey. Okay. No, stop. I don't want to hear meself. Okay, so let's go here and say extend. Now we can tell it what we wanted to keep and what we wanted to recreate. So let's say, keep that much, recreate all that. Alright, so let's try. Blue sky on my browser, T. Real one right beyond glass. Teacher talking about some grass. I'm stuck on that patch of grass. Calendar says, Join this room. Backyard says It's extended it awful lot. Blue sky on my brows a tag. Real right. Beyond the glass. Teacher talking about some grass. I'm stuck on that patch of grass. So, it took what I had, and it made something totally new out of it and extended it. Another thing you can do here is cover. If we go down here. If we cover something, what we're gonna do is change the style of it. Which will basically reimagine the song in a new style. So we can take the song, say cover. We can give it a whole new style and tell it to do it again. We can say, Let's make this metal. Let's do that, actually. Make this totally metal. Let's see what it does. I don't know about this. This is probably going to be a mess. Here we go. Awful lot of chorus. One. Yeah. Primo. Woo. That's awesome. Okay. The third thing that I want to point out is you can go remix and then use styles and lyrics. So you can go here, and then you can apply one of the styles that you've already created or the persona that you've already created. Alright. Let's move on. A 15. Suno Studio Overview: Hey, everyone. It's me coming to you from the future. In the class you're watching, I initially filmed a video here saying, there's this thing called Suno Studio, but I don't have it, so I maybe check it out. Now I have it. So I upgraded just so I can show you this and play around with this thing called Suno Studio. And it's kind of incredible. I kind of love it. Like, you can just, like, highlight something and say, redo this section. There's a bunch of cool features like extract the midi. The same kind of remix options that we had in the previous section, heal edits, I think is a really unique feature that only AI could really do. So if you make an edit, it can fix it without me tediously doing it. I can import whatever I want. I can bounce out as stems so that each of these is, like, all the instruments it can handle. If I go over here to extract stems and all detected stems, going to give me a bunch? I mean, the point is, this Sunho studio is really quite powerful. I'm really impressed. See, this is all the stems it found, and I can just say, add them all to my session. So now I could say, I don't like this guitar part. Redo that part, that, you know? It's wild. It's quite powerful. So I'm not going to go into any more detail about Suno Studio in this class after this video, but I will probably make a whole other class on using Suno Studio because there's a lot of powerful things here, FYI. 16. Common Prompting Mistakes and Fixes: Alright, in this section, let's talk about some prompting tips. There are some prompts for specific genres that I've discovered that can be really helpful. We'll do that in the next video. But first, I want to talk in general about some prompting tips. So there's kind of five things that I came up with as, like, these are the main things that you need to know about writing good prompts. Okay? Number one, Don't be vague. Add specifics. The more specifics, the better, right? If you're vague, then the AI is gonna try to figure out what you want, and it can do an amazingly good job. But if you're really trying to create art, then you need to be as specific as possible, I think. Mistake number two, conflicting instructions, okay? Keep prompts kind of linear, like, from beginning to end and make sure they don't, circle back too much. Not because the computer can't figure that out. It's because that you're more likely to screw it up. Let me be more specific and explain what I just meant. Like, if I said, write something that's a pop song, it has funny lyrics, and it does, you know, a cool chord progression in the chorus and then it's like all around a great reggae song. This is the kind of thing. You probably heard what I just did quickly. And if you didn't, the thing was at the beginning, I said pop song, and at the end, I said reggae. So just be sure that you're consistent in the flow from beginning to end and nothing contradicts itself. And again, if you contradict yourself, it's not like it's gonna explode or start on fire, it's just not going to give you what you want. Mistake number three. When an AI makes something on the first try, it's a first try. And remember that. So you don't have to listen to what it outputs, then say, That was great. Done. Walk away. The idea is that you iterate on it, okay? So that's why you can see Sno here is making two, right? Like, why is it making two? Because you're supposed to pick your favorite one and then do the cover or extend or apply a different feature or just give it more information in the style field to kick it around and get it exactly how you want it. So iterate. Mistake number four. Not using meta tags. Use those structure tags to get the structure that you really want and even some of the style and genre stuff. And mistake number five, doing too much in a single prompt. So in your prompt, focus on the genre, the sound, all of those things. Try not, don't ask it to make like two tracks at once. Don't ask it to consider this and consider that. Just tell it what you want directly. 17. Genre-Specific Prompting Strategies: Alright, let's talk about prompting with different genres. Now, I made a little list here. I'll give this to you all as a PDF. But here we go. So if you wanted to do something very poppy, focus on hooks, upbeat energy, and clean production. Those types of words will get you pretty much what you want. If you want hip hop or rap, specify the beat style, whether it's using eight oh eights. Is it trap or boom Bap or what kind of beat or style you want. For rock, talk about guitar types, distorted, clean. You can even talk about guitar models if you're that much into nerdiness. Also, talk about the drum intensity. Is it really crazy? Is it more subdued? How do you want that? Electronic music. Types, types of synthesis, you can name types of synthesizers you can try naming, and it'll come close. Talk about where the drops are and what buildups should be like. For country, talk about acoustic instruments. Talk about storytelling when it comes to country. Think of these kind of more abstract ideas about the genre. For jazz, you want to talk about instrumentation, the feel, specific instruments, drums on brushes, whatever you want there. For o fi music, if you ever want something kind of loi in there, talk about use warm in terms of texture. Also, you can talk about things like vinyl cracking and rubato, which means kind of be a little loose with the tempo. Anyway, all of those are great things, starting points for prompts in specific genres. 18. Releasing Your Tracks: From Suno to Distribution: Alright, you made some music with Sno. Let's talk about what you can do with it. So, if you have either of the top two accounts, you have commercial licenses to the music that you create on Sno. That means you can release. For money. Um, here's how. So all you really need to do is download it. So you can go here and go down to Download and then download the Wave fle, okay? Uh, the Wavefle is going to be the highest quality file that you'll need to distribute it. Now, if you want to get it to Apple Music and Spotify and all of those places, all you have to do is go through a distributor like TuneCore or something like that. I have a whole other class on how to do that, if you want to know how to do. But just remember that you have full rights to the songs that you make. If you're on the pro or premiere levels, if you're on the free one, you don't. One other thing I'll mention while we're here that you actually can make little music videos. So we'll take a look. I'll show it to you in just a second. This is what it generated. It looks like it's just a still screen. No, it's good. Light filter. Okay, so it's doing some kind of gradient shading in the background, but otherwise, it's just the cover art that it made by itself, by the way. And you can give it more instructions on cover art in that same sub menu if you like. Down here under Create. So that's all it takes. I mean, to distribute it, it's really just download the Wayfle and then create an account with one of the distributors Tuncore Distro kid, whatever you like. And then you're up and running. 19. Rights, Ownership, and Copyright: Okay, just a few more things. I want to talk really quick about some of the legal and ethical things around doing this. Obviously, this is very different than someone like me who studied my whole life and got a whole bunch of degrees on how to make music to see this brings up some questions. So first, let's just talk about the legal stuff that you want to keep in mind. As you're using these things, know that there is an ongoing lawsuit with Sno, and it's probably going to be going on for a while. It's with the RIAA. That's the Recording Industry Association of America. So it's possible that Sno gets shut down. I don't think that's likely, but it is in a lawsuit. And even if it wasn't, I would caution you to keep track of AI because all of the copyright issues with AI create tons of problems. So I think we're going to see a lot of platforms come and go for a little while until the law catches up, which might be some time. And remember, AI is a tool a tool for collaboration. I don't see it as a replacement for any human activity. I see it as a way to help spur my creativity. It's really good at that, and that's what I really like using it for. Okay, now let's talk about the ethics stuff, and let's go to a new video for that. 20. Ethical Considerations and Best Practices: Okay, so ethics. Should you do this? Should you use this to make music? I've struggled a lot with this. And at first, I kind of thought, No, because creating music needs to be harder. And that kind of made me scratch my head 'cause I don't think that's true. Does it make it more valuable or is it more important music if it's created through struggle instead of created through simplicity? I don't think so. So then I was kind of into it under the assumption that no one will ever create anything interesting with it. And now I don't believe that to be true at all. I think there's a lot of really interesting things that'll get made with it. So where I am now with my personal thinking is I'm at the point of Let's use it. Let's use it as a collaborator to but I want to make sure that we're always creating my vision and not the AI's vision. Because remember the way the AIs work, all AIs, the way they work, at least right now, they are prediction machines, right? They have a ton of data, and they know how to predict what's the most likely thing to happen. So that means that, in theory, if everybody starts making music with AI, after not that long, all music is going to sound the same. Uh, it's all going to kind of conglomerate into one supersong that everybody is making. So we don't want to do that. That would be very boring. So in order to make sure that doesn't happen with your music, you need to push it. You need to push it kind of hard, and you need to get it to work outside of its box. I think the most interesting things we're going to get is when we start to kind of trip up AI. But I've just recently and kind of reluctantly came to terms with using a tool like this as long as we're still following my vision for the music. And as long as it feels like a collaboration, I have yet to make anything with AI. I haven't done it yet. Anything serious. I've made fun things like what we've done in this class, but I haven't made any real serious music with it yet. I have a project coming up next month that I think I will try using it a little bit for, and we'll see how it goes. But I am excited to try it. 21. Wrap Up: Okay. Alright, everybody. Thanks for watching. Thanks for being here. We're gonna wrap it up there. I hope this gave you a great introduction to making music with AI, especially with Suno. Uh, thanks for watching. Check out some of my other classes. Check out some of the rest of the stuff I have here. In this class. There's always great stuff happening. So, I will see you in the next class. Bye. 22. Bonus Lecture: Hey, everyone. I want to learn more about what I'm up to. You can sign up for my email list here. And if you do that, I'll let you know about when new courses are released and when I make additions or changes to courses you're already enrolled in. Also, check out on this site. I post a lot of stuff there, and I check into it every day. 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