Courses
The Core Academy: ten phases, in the order the work happens.
One foundation for every creator: aim, opportunity, audience, brand, release strategy, distribution, content, marketing, monetization, analytics. Then a specialization track teaches how your kind of creator makes the music. Module 0 is free.
Aim and Foundation
Define what you are building, the aim, and action over endless research.
Module 0
Begin With a Definite Aim
Before researching keywords, opening Suno, creating a song, starting a TikTok strategy, or releasing music, decide what you are actually trying to accomplish.
Module 1
Action Comes First
Research, planning, and learning AI tools are valuable. But research can become procrastination. Nothing happens until something is created and released.
Module 2
Start With One Single
Do not begin by creating an album. Begin with one single.
Module 3
The AI Music Opportunity and the Business Mindset
What actually changed, who it favors, and why the winners think like a small label rather than a hobbyist.
Find the Opportunity
Genre, niche, keyword, YouTube and TikTok research. Find demand and the underserved lane.
Module 4
Don't Start With Suno
Students do not begin by opening Suno. They begin with keywords: what people are already interested in.
Module 5
Find a Genre You Want to Work With
Keyword research may uncover several opportunities. Choose a lane where audience interest, audience activity, and creative interest intersect.
Module 6
Take the Keywords to TikTok
After identifying keywords and a genre, investigate what is actually happening on TikTok.
Module 7
Study What People Like About the Music
Identify successful songs within the niche and analyze them.
Module 8
Use AI to Help Identify Why It Works
AI becomes a research assistant. Bring your observations to it and ask better questions.
Audience and Positioning
Who the music is for, and how you stand apart in the lane.
Module 9
Define the Audience
Before writing the song, begin building an audience profile.
Module 10
Positioning and Differentiation
Where you sit in the lane, in one sentence a stranger could repeat, and the one thing that makes you the obvious choice over the others already there.
Brand
Naming, identity, visual direction, story, consistency.
Module 11
Name the Project
Artist or project name that is searchable, sayable, ownable and not already someone else's.
Module 12
Brand Identity, Visual Direction and Story
The look, the story and the audience-facing position that stay the same across every cover, video and post.
Release Strategy
Singles, EPs, albums, calendars, frequency, budget, campaigns.
Module 13
Release One Single
Do not immediately create an album. Build a release campaign around one song.
Module 14
Singles, EPs, Albums, Calendars and Budgets
What to release, how often, in what shape, with what money. The plan the whole catalog runs on.
Distribution
Distributor setup, metadata, ISRC and UPC, every platform.
Module 15
Distribution With DistroKid
Distribute music professionally and manage a growing catalog.
Content
TikTok, Reels, Shorts, YouTube: hooks, thumbnails, titles, calendars.
Module 16
Create Music People Can Use
Before producing the song, ask: what can someone do with this song?
Module 17
Organic TikTok Marketing
Build attention without depending on paid advertising. The objective is not merely views. The objective is participation.
Module 18
YouTube as a Music Marketing System
YouTube videos should not exist as isolated uploads. Every successful video can become a distribution asset.
Module 19
One Release, Thirty Pieces: Hooks, Thumbnails, Titles, Calendars
How a single song becomes a month of TikToks, Reels, Shorts and YouTube uploads, and the craft of the pieces that get clicked.
Marketing
Organic and paid, testing, retargeting, community, the Viral Bridge.
Module 20
Creator Outreach
When someone uses your sound, dances to it, lip-syncs to it, or posts with it, they are no longer a cold audience. They have already participated.
Module 21
The Viral Bridge Method
One of the signature systems of AI Music Biz Academy: Create, Identify, Reactivate, Redirect, Repeat.
Module 22
Use an Old Song to Launch a New Song
A real case study. An older song went viral. When the new song was released, the old audience was not abandoned.
Module 23
Build the Music Ecosystem
Move audiences between platforms and releases. Build an ecosystem rather than isolated songs.
Module 24
Paid Marketing, Testing Hooks and Creative, Retargeting
When to spend, how to test, what a good cost per result looks like, and how to bring warm viewers back. Organic first; paid amplifies what already works.
Monetization
Streaming, YouTube, licensing, services, catalog, custom music, more.
Module 25
Turn Music Into a Business
Expand beyond simply counting streams. What assets and income streams can you build around this audience?
Analytics and Scale
Read the numbers, find the vein, validate, scale the catalog.
Module 26
Read the Data
After release, the audience begins teaching the student.
Module 27
Find the Vein
When something starts working, do not immediately abandon it. Study it.
Module 28
Create the Second Single
The second song should be informed by the first. Not copied. Informed.
Module 29
Validate the Niche
One successful release might be an anomaly. Repeated success creates stronger evidence.
Module 30
Now Scale Volume
This is where volume becomes powerful. Early volume is discovery. Focused volume is scale.
Module 31
The Complete AI Music Biz Method
Twenty-four steps. Use every release to make the next decision smarter.
The capstone
Eighteen steps. One released single.
Every module feeds a step. By the end you have a song people can use, distributed and marketed, with real numbers to read and a plan for the second single.
- 01Definite Aim. Write your Definite Aim. Begin reading it morning and night.
- 02Keyword Research. Identify demand with HitSonar.
- 03Genre Selection. Choose the opportunity.
- 04TikTok Research. Study real audience behavior with SoundTally.
- 05Analysis. Identify why successful music is working.
- 06Audience and Positioning. Define the intended listener and your position in the lane.
- 07Song Concept. Develop an original idea, in your track.
- 08Write the Song. Write independently or with AI, in your track.
- 09Participation Design. Determine what the audience can do with the song.
- 10Create the Record. Produce and finish it, in your track.
- 11Brand. Name locked, identity page done, cover consistent.
- 12Distribution. Release the song.
- 13Content. Thirty pieces planned and cut.
- 14Creator Outreach. Engage relevant creators and participants.
- 15YouTube Strategy. Publish and build traffic pathways.
- 16Measure. Track the response.
- 17Analyze. Determine what worked.
- 18Next-Song Strategy. Use the evidence to determine what to create next.
Artist Track
The Artist Track
Your vision. Your artist. Your music. AI is the studio. Fourteen modules that take you from 'I know what I want to sound like' to a finished, releasable record, without waiting on a producer, an engineer or a budget.
Artist 1
Define Your Sound
Before a single prompt, decide what kind of artist you are and write it down so every song comes from the same place.
Artist 2
Turn an Idea Into a Song
Concept, hook, title, theme and structure, decided for a specific audience before any music exists.
Artist 3
AI-Assisted Songwriting
Use ChatGPT and Claude to get more ideas than you could alone, then make every surviving line sound like you.
Artist 4
Prompting for Music
A reusable prompt framework that turns your Sound Bible into music-generation instructions the model actually follows.
Artist 5
Generation Without the Slot-Machine Problem
How many takes to make, what to listen for, how to compare them, and when to stop.
Artist 6
Directing the Vocal
Voice, range, tone, energy, phrasing, emotion, backgrounds and ad libs, directed like a session and kept consistent across releases.
Artist 7
Building a Consistent Artist
Recognizable from song to song without every song sounding the same: vocal, genre, production elements, lyric identity, visual identity, persona.
Artist 8
Your Own Voice and AI
When to sing it yourself, when AI supports you, and when a real performance is simply the better record.
Artist 9
Editing the AI Output
Take the generated song into a DAW and finish it: trim, arrange, extend, transitions, intros and outros, stems, replacing weak parts, gain, EQ, compression, mastering prep.
Artist 10
Quality Control
Catch the artifacts, the weird vocals, the mispronounced word and the timing slip before a listener does.
Artist 11
Rights and Commercial Use
Tool terms, commercial-use requirements, documentation, samples, voice rights, uploaded material, copyright, and what distributors ask. Not legal advice; the checklist that keeps you clear.
Artist 12
Build the Artist Visually
Artist imagery, cover art, thumbnails and short-form graphics that stay consistent, so the artist is recognizable and not a random face each release.
Artist 13
AI Music Video and Content
Lyric videos, performance concepts, animated artists, presenters, visualizers, and turning one song into weeks of short-form content.
Artist 14
Complete the Release
The record is made. Now the core academy takes over: distribution, positioning, content, launch, marketing, monetization and the numbers. Here is exactly where to go.
Producer Track
The Producer Track
You keep your beats. You keep your playing. AI takes the seat of the artist you never had to chase, or stays out of the music entirely. Either way, you learn to release, market and get paid like a label.
Producer 1
You Are Not Being Replaced. You Are the Label Now.
Producers and musicians are the loudest critics of AI music, and the people best positioned to profit from it. Nothing about your beats has to change. What changes is what you can do with them.
Producer 2
Your Beats, Your Rules: The Hybrid Workflow
Decide exactly where AI is allowed in your process, and where it is not. Then build a repeatable workflow around that line.
Producer 3
Hire the Artist You Never Had to Chase
Put an AI vocalist on your own beat, direct it like a session singer, and build it into an artist brand you control.
Producer 4
Demos That Sell Your Beat
Stop sending naked beats. Send finished-sounding songs with an AI vocal, and let the human artist replace the voice.
Producer 5
Ownership, Rights and Splits
Know what you own, what the tools let you do with their output, and how to split when a human records over your demo. This is not legal advice; it is the checklist that keeps you out of trouble.
Producer 6
Release as the Producer
The producer-led release is a proven model. Your name on the record, an artist featured, a catalog that pays you directly.
Producer 7
Market Like an Artist, Even Though You Are the Producer
The same organic playbook that breaks songs works for producer-led releases, with content only a producer can make.
Producer 8
New Money for Producers
Every stream of income a producer already has gets bigger when the demo sounds finished, and a few new ones open up.
Producer 9
Musicians: Play Real, Ship Fast
For instrumentalists, bands and singer-songwriters. Real playing is your edge. AI is how you stop waiting on everyone else to release.
Producer 10
Producer Capstone: Your First Producer-Led Single
Take one beat from the folder to a released, marketed single with your name on it. Use the core capstone for the release and marketing steps; this checklist covers the producer-specific parts.
Musician Track
The Musician Track
Turn what you play into complete records. Start from your own performance, let AI build the arrangement and the voice around it, keep the playing central, and finish records without a band, a studio or a budget.
Musician 1
Your Playing Is the Record
Guitarists, keys players, drummers, bassists, horn players: the thing you can do is the thing no generator can. The track is about finishing records around it.
Musician 2
Record Your Playing So AI Can Use It
A clean, in-time, well-leveled recording of your part is the raw material for everything after. Here is the minimum that works.
Musician 3
Start a Song From an Instrument Performance
Upload the part, describe the record around it, and let AI propose the song. You keep what fits and cut what does not.
Musician 4
AI Arrangements and Accompaniment Around Live Playing
Drums, bass, keys, strings, horns: generate the band you do not have, sized and voiced to leave room for the part you play.
Musician 5
AI Vocals Around Real Instrumentation
An instrumental record with a voice on it reaches a different audience. Direct an AI vocalist over your playing without burying it.
Musician 6
Turning Riffs, Progressions and Jams Into Structured Songs
Most musician ideas are sections looking for a song. Extend, cut and arrange them into something with a beginning, a hook and an end.
Musician 7
Demo Creation and Arrangement Development
A fast demo tells you whether the song works before you spend a day on it. Then the arrangement pass makes it a record.
Musician 8
Preserving the Performance: Blending Human Playing With AI
Mixing a real take against generated parts so the human element is audibly in front, and the record still sounds like one thing.
Musician 9
DAW Integration and Finishing Complete Records
Bring the generated stems and your takes into the DAW, finish the arrangement, polish, and export a record ready for the Core's distribution and content phases.
Musician 10
Building a Catalog Around Musicianship
A body of work that sounds like one player: recurring feel, recurring instrument, content that shows the hands, and releases that feed each other.
Singer-Songwriter Track
The Singer-Songwriter Track
Your words. Your melody. Your voice. AI helps you finish the record. From a voice memo or a guitar demo to a produced song, without losing what makes it yours and without a full production team.
Songwriter 1
You Are the Song
The words, the melody and the voice are the record. Everything AI adds is in service of those three, and this track is about keeping it that way.
Songwriter 2
Lyric Development Without Losing Your Voice
Use AI to get unstuck, expand and refine, while every line stays something you would say.
Songwriter 3
Hook and Melody Development
The line they repeat and the tune they hum: how to find them, test them, and make them singable.
Songwriter 4
Song Structure: Verse, Chorus, Bridge Decisions
The order of sections is a set of decisions about attention. Make them on purpose.
Songwriter 5
Voice Memos and Acoustic Demos Into Full Arrangements
The recording on your phone is enough to start. Upload it, describe the record, and let AI build the band around your melody and your chords.
Songwriter 6
Using AI Around the Singer's Real Vocals
Record your lead. Use AI for what surrounds it: reference takes, harmonies, backgrounds, a guide for the parts you cannot reach yet.
Songwriter 7
Harmony and Background Vocal Planning
Stacks, answers and ad libs, planned on paper before anything is generated or sung.
Songwriter 8
Instrumentation and Arrangement Generation
Choosing the band for a song built on a voice: fewer instruments, more space, dynamics that follow the words.
Songwriter 9
Demo-to-Production and Vocal Production
Turning the arrangement plus your vocal into a finished record: vocal chain, balance, polish, mastering prep.
Songwriter 10
Preserving Artistic Identity and Finishing Without a Team
A body of work that is unmistakably yours, finished on your own schedule, with AI as the team you never had to hire.
Programs
When you want the founder beside you.
The courses teach the method. The programs make you run it: a small group for eight weeks, one-on-one for ninety days, or a four-month build done with you.
Eight weekly group calls
The Release Cohort
Eight weeks. A small group. One real release, reviewed every week.
$1,997 once, on top of Core
Founding seats: $997
Twelve weekly one-on-one calls
The Label Track
Ninety days, one-on-one. Your beats, an artist built for them, three singles out under your name.
$5,000 once, on top of Core
Founding seats: $3,500
Free
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