Using AI Music to Create Jingles for Content Creators and Podcasters.

1. Class Introduction: Hi, and welcome. Let's just take a few seconds to listen to some AI music. Scores of music spa hours maybe days. Looking for sounds in a knowing way. Hi, I'm David, an IT professional musician and content creator. I've been writing and producing my own music for some time and recently decided to take the leap to create this my very first class on Skillshare to show you how to get value from AI music using real world examples. In this class, you will find an introduction tosnodt com, the leading AI music generator. We won't go into too much detail. I simply want to get you going and to show you how easy it is to create jingles or intro music ready to integrate into your podcast or your own projects. I'll show you how I created this fictional podcast. Welcome to conversations with Vania. We will also look at some text to Voice generation, which we use in the podcast introduction. Are you ready to get some creative ideas flowing and to have a bit of fun? Great. Let's play out with a bit more of this piece of AI music, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 2. Class Project: Okay, your project task will be to create, yes, you've guessed it, a jingle. If you've got your own podcast, then great, go ahead and do your jingle for your own podcast. Otherwise, just make it up something a bit of fun just like the one that I did here. You'll need to create an account on sno.com, but you don't need to be on the paid tier. Even on the free tier, you can still download an MP three file. So when you're done, submit it back here your P three to the project so that I can take a listen looking forward to it. 3. What is AI Music: Hi, thanks for joining me. AI music generators have reached a point today where we can now get great quality voice overlays and background music for your podcast. Or if you're a product reviewer and you need custom background music, it really has come a long way. We can also now to some extent, control the structure and the output of the music and really fine tune it. Exciting time now for content creators to really start harnessing the power here. And so it's good fun, too. Okay, before we get to that, I think it's useful to understand a little bit about AI music, some of its implications of use, and also quick explanation about some of the benefits for creators, too. I'm also using a voice overlay here to take you through this video. Let's get going. Thanks, David. Artificial intelligence, AI, refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, particularly computer systems. These processes include learning, reasoning, problem solving, perception, and language understanding. While AI's music integration offers exciting potential, it also raises critical ethical questions. For some traditional roles within the music industry, such as sound engineering and technical production, AI's ability to automate intricate tasks like mixing and sound design has sparked concerns about job security. Unlike the past, producing high quality audio now requires minimal technical expertise, thanks to these advanced tools. It's understandable why some musicians may be hesitant to fully embrace this shift. However, the rapid advancements in AI's capability signal that we're moving into a new era that impacts all sectors, not just music, collaborating with AI, rather than resisting it, could be the most pragmatic approach, as its influence is likely here to stay. Podcasters juggle a wide range of tasks, investing significant time and effort to create high quality content. Traditional approaches often involve extensive manual work or costly outsourcing. AI offers a transformative solution by simplifying complex processes and automating tasks that would otherwise consume hours. With AI generated music, podcasters can create custom soundtracks and jingles without needing extensive musical expertise. Saving time spent searching for royalty free tracks or coordinating with composers. This adds a creative edge, allowing them to enhance the tone and theme of their episodes and create an engaging listening experience. It doesn't have to stop there. AI tools can automatically remove background noise, adjust audio levels, and even identify and eliminate filler words. These tools help podcasters focus on content creation, reduce post production time, and ensure the final output is polished and professional. I hope you found that useful. I'm sure you're ready now to get onto the good stuff. Okay, let's go. 4. Introduction to Suno: Hi. This video is just an introduction to suno.com. It's what we're going to use to create the jingle in our next lesson. I did, however, go a bit further with it than I intended in this one, including changes to the song structure, tags so that you could hear Sno work its magic. But this video is not really intended to be a full puno explainer. My aim is just to enable you to be able to start creating some music so it makes sense when we come to generating a jingle in the next lesson. Okay, let's get started. 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 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 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. 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, it gives us just this one dialog 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 chord 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 put I want a summer dance party. Now the reason I've put that in 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 on the screen, we've got a verse, so this is the structure. Here you can see the structure of the music. 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 the song 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, 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. To being generated down the bottom. We're gonna try the first one. Here we go. How Sunshine and feel the heat teaches thinking and it Dancing to the I'm sweet. Not enjoying that. My try this. Sun hiningFeel the heatpe W Dan into Dugthm sweet. Everybody, move your feet. Let's Dubs 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 the shining sky of blue. Yeah. Everybody feeling. Groovn bigs are fine. Come on, now, it's our time. Music wasn't in the air. Hands up pie. We just don't care. Feel the oth and feel the heat. Theres somebody's moving feet. Soing nice come alive. All. B. We got a bride. I'm full we want stump stump this dy drug. Oh, that's so much better. Okay, I'm going to leave it there. The only other thing I wanted to mention is just to make sure that you do read the terms and conditions before you use it in any commercial way. It's a complex area when it comes to ownership and copyright. But that's not for today. Time to move on, and I hope you enjoyed that. 5. Let's Create a Jingle: We're going to create a jingle now for my wonderful podcast idea. I wanted a fun jingle intro, which fades into some background music. Also looking for a nice ending to it, as well. The music that Sno generated actually worked out really well, which you'll hear a bit later. Okay, the best thing to do now is to head over to Sno. Here we are in Sno, and now we are going to generate our jingle. This is actually a very simple prompt once you know exactly what you need to put in here. We need to go to custom mode because we want lyrics and style of music. The first thing we do then in lyrics is we say to Sno that we want a melodic interlude. We are asking Sno to not generate lyrics immediately. We are asking it for something melodic to open it. Sometimes I've used the term instrumental interlude, and it will do something similar. The next thing we're going to do is put in a little bit of text, and this is all that we need for our demo podcast, which is welcome to conversations with an alien. Nothing more than that. Lyrics simply melodic interlude in square brackets to tell it to give us an opener and then welcome to conversations with an alien. That's the only words that we need. Okay. The second part of this is in style of music to enter, this is what I entered, which is energetic yet playful beat to be used as a Oh, come on. As a jingle for a podcast. So in style of music, we are again saying to Sno the type of music that we want. It says here in the drop down, describe the style of music that you want. Is it acoustic or pop? Well, of course, we're not asking for any of those things. It says that it does understand genres and vibes. Well, we're certainly giving it a vibe. Energetic yet playful beat, but what it is picking up or using as a genre, I couldn't really say for sure, but it does seem to recognize somewhere this term jingle for a podcast. That is all I put in before I click the Create button, which we'll do now to get back our results. I'm going to try it now. And it's generating those two items down there and there they are. Now, I did this previously because I've already got the piece of music that I want you to work with. Let's just see if it's given us back anything that would be equally usable. Welcome to conversations with Ami. Well, I'm not going to let that play out, but they're definitely energetic with playful beats. Let me go now back actually to the one that I created that we're going to use for our podcast. I'm back on the original piece of music that I created. I went to my library and clicked on the d items. Then let me just click the link to go through the actual page. I'll play a few seconds of this just so you can hear it again. Okay, it's 35 seconds long. It created the melodic interlude, then a few words. Then it had a little break and a bit of an ending. You'll hear the whole thing through in one of the later videos. What I wanted to show you here was to be able to play with this, you can go to create and extend this piece of music. I'll take you back to your original create screen, and it will fill out the boxes again with your prompts, your lyrics, and your style of music. You'll see down here it says, extend from. It's going to extend this piece of music, so it will be should be in exactly the same style. But it will extend the music from 34 seconds onwards. Now, what you could potentially do here is if you want something in the background with no more lyrics, you can just put it onto instrumental mode. Now it's retaining the style of music. It's going to extend it from 34 seconds. We'll try this and we'll grab a bit more music and see if it does exactly that for us. It's generated two more pieces. It's untitled this time, let's hear what it has done with them. You can keep generating until you get the piece that you actually want. Let's just try this last piece. I'm not going to play this one, credits refunded, which means that it didn't generate the piece of music. Look, it's 3 seconds. Hopefully, you'll get the idea from there that you can see how to create the initial jingle, then you can extend it. There's one other thing that I would say that you could do is if you like the first part of the music, the original part that we created, and you like the extended version, so this is P two. You could now go to these three dots over here and in create, if you go get whole song, it will join the two together. So if you didn't want to do any audio editing, let me just click that. You didn't want to do any audio editing, it will join those two together for you, and it will do it seamlessly and it doesn't actually cost any more credits to do that either. So that has now generated. Okay. I hope that was useful for you. And you'll see we're going now to move on to look at doing some text to audio that we want to sit over this as well. But that's how we managed to generate our jingle. Okay, great. I'll see you in the next lesson. 6. Text-to-audio with Eleven Labs: We're going to enhance our podcast now with a voice overlay. And to do that, we're going to use a text to voice generator called 11 Labs. Before we get onto the actual generation, I'm going to click pricing here to show you the tiers. But there's a free tier here, which gives you up to around 10 minutes worth of ultra high quality text to speech per month. Certainly we need to be able to add a few words to the intro of our podcast. I wanted to show you that. Then once you've signed in, you have to sign in and then we click this GT app here. I'm clicking that now. On the main page now, you can see down the left hand side, there are some different options for creating speech, voice changer which I've not used. Voices here, you can try out all of these voices to see what suits your needs. Let me click a few. Our distrust is very expensive. I see. Okay, next, trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Thank you, Alice. One today is worth two tomorrows. No kidding. Okay, and Matilda. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Right. We're going to use Matilda. I'm going back to text to speech, and in here, we just type in in this box our text. Actually, I've got it copied here. Hold on. There we go. Join me each week as I chat with the intergalactic neighbors. Okay. And then you click Generate Speech. I do that now. Join me each week as I chat with our intergalactic neighbors from across the universe, uncovering cosmic secrets. It generates really quickly. It just uses a handful of credits. And then once that's done, you click the download button and it will grab your MP three file for you to pull in to your project. And that's it. Quite straightforward. 7. Putting it Together: The last thing to show you was how I overlaid the text to voice, those few words that we just generated onto the jingle. I think the whole thing works really well. It sounds professional and maybe you could even extend the music, create different versions of the music to sit in the background more fully. You just need to experiment with Sno. There's certainly lots of possibilities there. Anyway, here it is. Join me each week as I chat with our intergalactic neighbors from across the universe, uncovering cosmic secrets. Hope you enjoyed that. That was a bit of good fun, so that's all for now. Although I know what you're waiting for. You want to hear that conversation, don't you? Okay, not to disappoint. Here it is. Welcome back to another episode of Conversations with an alien. Today, we're thrilled to have Zorb from Planet Gobnok. Zorb, how are you enjoying Earth? Oh, yes, it's frightfully interesting. Before we begin, you seem to have adopted a British accent. That is correct. We have assimilated all speech patterns and found this audio output rather entertaining. I see. Anything. I wanted to discuss with you the human concept of fast food. Are you seeking to evolve into a species that functions purely on grease and sugar? Well, I can see why you would think that Itried some of these French flags. Very misleading name. I found live tectualc on P France. There seems also to be no nutritional value in sustaining your human life form. Yet you seem to eat them in quantity. Yes, but, I mean, they are delicious, right? Delicious. They toss that disappointment. Dipped in salt. Okay, that's probably fair. Anything else stand out to you? Yes. Cats. Strange docile carbon entities. Your Iterweb places high value on them. I'm trying to understand this concept of cat videos. Are felines your overlords? Or are you simply worshipping them in small, easily digestible media formats? It's complicated. I'll say, humans do have some bizarre rituals. But we have enjoyed your concept of music. Melodic tones evoking straslational behavior. Which we have not experienced. Your heartbreak songs almost caused us to lose concentration and enter into an asteroid belt. I'm glad you're enjoying our music, even if it did nearly cause you to crash. Laughter. Another peculiar human concept. You are laughing at our near misfortune. It has brought you joy. Okay, that's complicated, too. We'll discuss that in the next episode. Thanks for visiting Zorb. Thank you. I'm struggling a little with your atmosphere. I think I need to take a nap. Enjoy. 8. Well Done!: Mm. Congratulations for completing the class. How did you find it? It can be a bit daunting, especially if this is your first time creating AI music. If you did produce your own jingle or intro music, then well done to you. And I'll please submit it to the project section. Hello. Just for me to say, good luck now with your AI music journey and keep an eye out for my other lessons, which are also based around AI music real world examples. And if you have any questions for me, drop them into the discussion, and I'll get back to you. That's it. If you've got the time, keep listening as I've extended that guitar intro piece and which I really liked. Okay. Bye for now.