Suno V4: An Introduction. Create Your Own AI Music.

1. Class Introduction: Hi, and welcome to my class on Suno. If you're already on your AI music journey, then it's quite likely that you would already have heard of Sno. If you're completely new, this is a great place to start. It's very easy to get off the ground, start generating your own custom music. We'll start with the basics, and then we'll venture into some more of the advanced features. I'll also point you to some resources so that you can improve your music generation, and we'll look at the latest updates of version four. The music that you're hearing now that was generated using Sno. I have to say it's definitely my GT music generator. It covers everything across multiple genres, and it's very much improving as well, certainly with the release of version four. And you'll definitely be seeing Sno again if you look at any of my other courses here on Skillshare. So yeah, by the end, you will confidently be creating and editing your own music with Suno. So I hope you're ready to get started. Let's go. The. 2. Getting Set Up: Here we are in suno.com. You may have noticed I've been using Suno for some of the background music already. I've been getting great results actually across all genres. It's very much the leader right now and the most popular music generator with millions of regular users. Today then we're going to step through some of the basic features and we're going to generate some music in a few different styles to show you its versatility. Let's ask Mike what he's found out about Sno. Uno.com is a platform that provides innovative AI powered audio tools for content creators, musicians, and developers. It offers a range of audio generation and editing features, making it easy to create voiceovers, sound effects, and music using artificial intelligence. It aims to simplify audio production workflows, allowing users to generate high quality audio content quickly and efficiently, whether for podcasts, videos or other creative projects. Yeah, Sno's mission, they say, is to democratize music creation by making it accessible for everyone regardless of their musical background. That's a quote on their website. I think that they're well on their way to doing that. The music's already really good quality and it's certainly sufficient for content creators to use, let's not forget that this type of music generation is still really in its infancy, who knows where it will be even in a year's time? The first thing that we need to do now is create an account. If you haven't done so already by clicking just about anywhere, we'll take you to the sign up. I'm going to subscribe here, and because I'm already logged in, it's showing you my details. I'm on the pro plan, the $10 a month plan I'm using Sun a lot at the moment. But if you're new and you're just signing up to the basic plan, the free plan, you still get 50 credits, which renew daily. That's approximately ten songs a day. Really great free tier for you to be able to try out. Okay, next, we head over to the Create screen. 3. Let's Create Some Music: If this is first time you're on this screen, then you might see something a little bit different. You won't have this list of music, which is the music that I've generated already, so that will be blank. On the left side, you'll see the fields used for creating the music. The first thing that we'll do is at the top here. We will take it off of custom mode, so it gives us just this one box, which we are going to use to generate the music. Here we go then with our first bit of music. What we're doing is putting a description, as it says here, in the box, song description. Enter the style of music topic, and also use genre and vibes. Let's put something in there it's going to cover some of that. I'm going for an energetic house track, pulsing bass, uplifting synth chords. I've got genre, I've got a star, got a pulsing bass, so it's got a real feel to it and some synth chords. Also, we need to I want to put that into instrumental mode so we have no vocals, and then you click Create and our first track is on its way. It always generates two pieces of music. I think it's one credit for each one, and there you are. They've appeared already. If I click the first one, That's good. And it plays, actually, whilst it is still continuing to generate that music. So down the bottom, can you see it's on 17 seconds. But this can end up as a three minute or four minute piece of music. Come back to that. Here we are then we're back. And this first piece of music was actually in the end, only 1 minute 50 seconds. And the second one it generated was 2 minutes 24 seconds. Let me just play the second one briefly. All right, pulsing, certainly was and uplifting synth chords, quite possibly. All right. Let's move on. The next thing that we could do here is to take that off of instrumental mode. And if we create it again, we'd get something similar, but this time, Suno would quite likely put some vocals around it. But we're going to now move into custom mode and do something a little bit more advanced. We're in custom mode now, and you can see a lyrics style box and a style of music and a few other items. We'll start with the lyrics box, mouse over the question mark, and it says, gives you a little bit of information. But in here, I'm just going to crouch I want a summer dance party. Now the reason I've put that in is that's not my lyrics. See this box here is going to generate it's going to use his own AI for the text to generate the lyrics for me. I've selected that just waiting a few seconds and it's come back onto the screen, we've got a verse, so this is the structure. Here you can see the structure of the music. These tags here, meta tags or prompts are telling Sno what to do. It's going to give us a verse style followed by a second verse, which is usually a slight enhancement of the beat, and then we move into chorus. It's got a bridge back to verse three, and back to chorus again, it's actually ending this on there. We don't have an intro or an outtro, but that's a good starting point. Next, in the style of music, it tells you it says, describe the style of music that you want. This is what I want in true summer dance style. I want pop, I want R&B and I want it emotional, and let's go for female vocals. I've given Suno quite a bit of information now and hopefully it's going to give us something quite fun. It's titled it down here. You can add your title here. I've just skipped over persona and we will come back to that. Let's create. Two being generated down the bottom. We're gonna try the first one. Here we go. Ho. Ho. Sunshine and feel the heat Dj and it Dancing the rhythm enjoying that. Let me try this. Sun is charming. Feel the heat hispan W. Dating to Duthm Sweet. Everybody, move your feet. Let's Daves on toss. Alright, great. Next, we're going to try something a bit different. When I came back and listened again to those two, I didn't really like either of them. So I tried again, and I've got here another one summer vibes two, which is much better, and I'll play it for you in shortly. But I just wanted to show you what I did to save a bit of time so we didn't go through the process again. But I've just added a pre chorus to the structure of the song and the lyrics. I've told it to Sono to give me back a series of oohs, which it has nicely obeyed. I'm going to play it for you now and let me know what you think. Sun shining sky so blue. Yeah. Everybody feeling ill. Groovn bigs are fine. Come on, now, it's our time. Music busting in the air. Handsome high, we just don't hear. Feel the we and feel the heat. A somebody's moving feet. Oh Sommer nice come alive. Alive. A. W vibe, we go to be. On the floor, we go stop, stop. Feel base. Let it drop. Oh, I'll say much better. Okay. I'm going to leave it there in terms of the tags. The reason for that is I'm going to send you to a new site actually, which I think is totally invaluable and definitely want to be bookmarked. This is a Suno wiki I really do suggest you spend some time in here if you do want to make the most of Suno rather than listening to me or anybody else for that matter, talking about it and go through this site. It doesn't actually take too long, but boy, there's a mountain of information I'll show you how to structure your song, like with these tags and plenty more as well. This one here, Hook is something that we're going to be using in a later tutorial, which is why I don't need to go much further with it now. And there is also one more site here, which is called how to promptsuno.com. It's just so much information. Have a good old play around with that. And we're going to move on now. 4. Introduction to Advanced Features: We'll take a look now at some of the other features to extend the music on our summer vibes, which is 2 minutes 17 seconds long, you've guessed it. We click the Extend button. When we do that, the panel on the left changes. It's now the action button there says extend and what it will do is it will extend the piece of music from the end, which is 217, although it says 216 here and it will create a completely new or additional piece of music from that point in time. You should give it a new set of lyrics. You would have structured the song so you'll need a new verse and course, you can do that, or I think you could click Surprise Me again and see what it generates for you. All right, to save some time, I did that and I created summer vibes too. But when I play this, which I'll do now, there's actually a bit of a blank space at the beginning. Look, have a listen. Anything. Sun shining sky, so blue. All right. And then it kicks in. So when it does things like that, that's where you need to start editing and amending sections, which I will show you very quickly. But before we get to that, we've got two parts, so to join them up over to the right hand side, click the three dots and this time you go to create, not edit for some reason, create and you would say, get the whole song. When you get the whole song, it will now join together those parts. Good news about this is it doesn't take any more of your credits away. It's now generating that. We'll let it do that. I'll speed it up. That's now done, and we've got 4 minutes and 15 seconds. The next thing that I'm going to show you is back on the three dots. This time we're going to edit and we have cropped the song. When this screen appears, it's going to generate the whole song, and if you didn't like the intro or you only liked a part of it, you can drag the bit that you want to keep, and that's what it does. The next thing we can do in here is to click Replace section. We again get the whole song, and this is a fairly new addition, also. As I drag over the song, you can see the lyrics on the left or the point where I am in the song. There's a message here that said any changes need to be at least 10 seconds long. If you look down the bottom left, you can see that the recreate section will disappear unless it's at least 10 seconds long. So the reason I'm hovering over this bit is if I wanted to change my pre chorus, rather than to say oh, I wanted to say, I could do that and click once I have enough, there, click recreate section, and it will it will amend that and hopefully move from s to s. Click the Clear button. I did notice over here this section here, which is possibly we didn't listen to the song the le way through, doesn't seem to have any lyrics. Again, in here, I could just add my own lyrics. You can see now how we can really start to amend and change and build up the song, change the lyrics, add in a new verse, take out a course, put in a hook, all of those things. It's starting to get very powerful now. That is the replace section, I'm going to click out of there. The next thing to show you is, well, I guess nothing more. There's our four song. If you want to like it, that will simply like it's also highlighted these other ones here, which are part of that made up the song. It's like that and put that in our library. If I go to my library and I click on my liked items, it's put the four song there. Also, I'm sticking on this library screen. I could add this to a playlist. There's a playlist folder here. Which I don't have anything in right now. I could come to the right hand side again, add playlist, create a call it dance playlist. Create the playlist. You could really start to coordinate your music. There's my dance playlist and there's my one item in there. Then what would be next. If you want to download the music as download, you can download as an MP three or a WAV then I guess finally, if you really like your summer dance vibe, you could make that public as well. That was a very speedy whirlwind type approach to those features, which are very powerful features, but this lesson has been long enough and we need to be moving on. 5. Version 4 Updates: You should be able to see on your screen this latest music that I've been having a play around with Version four, little green box next to it, it says, I'm in the V four model. To create music using that model, you have to come up the top and move from the 3.5 to Version four. Alas, this is only, I believe been released for paid users, so I'm on the paid tier. You'll need to be on a paid tier to get access to it. Moving on, down here, I'm going to click on what's new and we're just going to quickly have a glance at what they are saying that's where the changes are. One of the main things, one of the main criticisms actually about Sno on the older versions is the quality of the audio in terms of vocals. Now they're saying better audio, sharper lyrics, and more dynamic song structures. And I would say, yeah, very much there is a distinct difference. So it's brought them much more on a par in terms of vocals with the other with their competitor odio. And, you know, they're just on a journey, and they're improving, so this version is definitely a big improvement. And it's been used across all of their other features. They're saying that they're, you know, supercharging some of their other features like covers and personas. We will actually come to personas. I'm doing another class, which is going to be dedicated just to personas because it's actually a very powerful tool, so keep your eye out for that. Right. Let's move to what we're going to do is we're going to move to the song that I created in the last lesson, which was the dance piece, and we're going to remaster it with inversion force so we can hear both side by side. Okay, let's do that. Back in Sno, go to my library playlist. And in my dance playlist, we have our summer vibes. What we're going to do is we're going to use the new feature in version four, which you can find under the three dots. Under Create, and we will remaster. So it's going to take summer vibes to that was created in version 3.5 and do an automatic remastering of it. So I click that and it takes us back to our main page, the Create page, and it's created two versions of remastered versions of our summer vibes. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add them to our dance playlist so that we can see them side by side. Okay? Done. Same thing again. Back to back to our playlist. Right. There are three versions, so it's created two remastered versions of summer vibes. It will just play from the start each time, but it should be enough to give you a sense of the changes, the improvements, hopefully that it's made. Here we go. Jump it forward. So nice come alive. Alright, round about 30 seconds, we'll jump it forward. We'll try the same on these. Here we go. Sun is shining sky so blue. Everybody feeling new. Summer nights come alive. Alive. F five. We go to thrive on the floor. We won't stop, stop. Feel the face bright in the summer moonlit night. Laughter joy everywhere. Dance until we is okay. Mm Sunshine is little blue. Summer nice come alive. Ah. Live. We got to throw. The first one. Summer nice come alive. It's much more distinct. It's much more distinct. It's more vibrant. You can hear more. In the frequency ranges, the high end frequencies are coming through much more. Actually, I'll play the original gin from here, 37 seconds, and then I'll just jump back to one of the remaster ones so I can hear it again. In the five, we got to drive on the floor, we want stuff. In, we've got a drive on the floor we want. Okay, that sounds a bit. Yeah, quite a lot cleaner to me, more dynamics there and you can hear more in the frequency ranges. That's a good job. Of course, if you've got Version four, then you'll be creating your songs in Version four. But if you've done previously in Version three, then you can remaster to get the benefit of that. I wanted to show you that I think Version four in summary then is a general change to the model. They've updated various components and features. They say they've supercharged. We've seen this already. I think it's affecting just all output music and the vocal output, especially as we said, has been improved. One thing I did spot here was going back to the create screen. If you generate your lyrics with the right with Suno box, there are now two models that you can choose from a dancing bear on the beach, just trying a sentence just to see what this does. It gives you two versions to choose from and you can accept whichever option. The other model says that it can potentially generate some content that people find offensive. I'm going to give that a little try and see what I come up with and see if it offends me, which I probably doubt. Um, okay. So that's it for the summary for updates. I am going to be creating a new class for as I've already mentioned, for personas that will be generated in Version four, so keep your eye out for that. Great. 6. Ownership & Copyright: Let's just have a very quick look at the terms. I'm going to the help section here, and then writes an ownership. What are the key important points? Do you own the music you make? Pretty important. I would say, Suno seems very categoric about this. If you are subscribed to the P premiere plan, then you are the owner of the song. If you're on the basic tier, we retain ownership, they retain ownership, which means if you go creating some fantastic piece of music, you're never going to be able to monetize it. Because if you do that, you cannot move from the basic to the pro and still expect to retain ownership, they will retain ownership. Just bear that in mind that you have to be on the pro or premiere plan in the first place for you to be able to own that music. They do seem very clear about this. Some of the other services are not as clear. Even though you own the song, there are still some areas where they retain rights. Commercial, non commercial. Again, it would seem you have complete commercial control over this from your distribution, you can put it on Spotify through to YouTube, all of your socials, even sync licensing for, you know, TV and film for commercial use, of course, non commercial use means you get no access to any of that. Good, good. Do I have copyright? Into some murky water now, the page does say again that you own and can monetize the music, but it may be subject to copyright. It would seem that different countries have different definitions of copyright. In the US copyright law protects material that is created by humans. Music made 100% with AI would not qualify for copyright protection. Because a human did not write the lyrics or the music, it says there. There is also a lawsuit in play at the moment with some of the big music companies suing Suno and the other big player Udio for copyright infringement. I think it's a watch this space. It's yet to fully play out. One thing I could add here though is that if you did create a great piece of music on Sno, although you could monetize it because you can't copyright it, it's open for anyone else to take your great piece of music. And monetize it as well. What fun. That's all for now and thanks for sticking with it. 7. Well Done!: Good work for completing the class. Hope you found informative and given you some confidence to start with some simple song creation, or maybe you're getting stuck into some of the more advanced features. If you've created some good music or some great music, drop it into the project section below. That'll be brilliant. Really love to hear what you've created. Or if you've got any questions, just start a discussion below, and I'll be checking in there regularly just to answer any questions. Great. Thanks for completing the class and yeah, I hope to see you and one of my others, okay? Bye for now. Mm.