How to make music with AI
Royalty-free music libraries are dying. The same 200 lo-fi tracks are in every YouTube video, every TikTok, every reel. AI music generation killed that problem — you can now produce a custom, copyright-free track tailored to your specific video in about 90 seconds.
This walkthrough covers five real examples I generated for actual projects, the prompt structure that gets you usable output on the first try, and the one mistake that makes 80% of AI music sound like garbage.
Example 1: Jazz with vocals
Smooth, mid-tempo, female vocal lead. The kind of track you'd put under a coffee-shop B-roll or a luxury product reveal. Generated in one pass.
Example 2: Fast-paced social media track
Punchy, 120+ BPM, drop in the first 8 seconds — the structure short-form algorithms reward. This one's the workhorse for TikTok and Reels openers.
Example 3: Inspirational background music
Building piano, soft strings, low percussion. The "you can do it" track. Course intros, founder stories, mission statements. Always works.
Example 4: Peruvian Cumbia style
Niche genre, totally outside any stock library. Used for a travel reel — the kind of track you couldn't find on Epidemic Sound if you searched for an hour. AI doesn't care about catalog gaps.
Example 5: Tense cinematic score
Low-end drone, building tension, sharp percussion hits. Trailer territory. If you make any kind of true-crime, mystery, or dramatic content, this is the unlock.
How it works: step-by-step
Inside the AI Media Machine's music generator, you give the model:
- Genre or vibe — "lo-fi hip hop", "epic orchestral", "Peruvian cumbia"
- Mood — calm, tense, uplifting, mysterious
- Structure — instrumental only, or with vocals
- Length — 30 seconds, 60, full track
Hit generate. 90 seconds later you have an MP3.
The #1 mistake to avoid
Don't write paragraphs. AI music tools work best with short, dense, descriptor-heavy prompts. "Upbeat jazz with brushed drums and warm sax, 100 BPM, 30 seconds, no vocals" beats a 200-word prompt every single time. Less is more.
Where to get the prompts
The FREE pack of AI music prompts has my 30 most-used templates organized by use case — vlog intros, ads, podcast intros, cinematic, social. Drop them in, swap the genre, ship the track.
Stack it with the rest of your workflow
Music is one piece. The AI Media Machine has the music generator next to the video generator, voiceover tool, and thumbnail maker. One subscription. $1 trial. Build the whole video without leaving the tab.
