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LessWrong's (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing
Jeff Pyles32

Great, thank you!

And wow, huh, I definitely didn't anticipate it took that much effort. Do you guys have any tips or anything you feel you learned about prompting Suno effectively that you can pass on from all that time spent with it?

Thanks for the album and all the work you put into it, too - I've listened to it a bunch over the last few days, and been moved by many parts of it, and am just generally grateful it exists :)

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4Elizabeth
@Raemon told me to be aggressive with things like new lines and ellipses to alter the pacing. 
9habryka
I think by far the biggest piece of advice I can give is "just press the generate button 3 times every time you finish a prompt". The second biggest is "when you listen to the beginning of a song and it isn't good, just skip it. You can continue generating from any point in a song, but you cannot take the middle or the end of any song, so if the beginning doesn't work, you won't be able to change it".  Annotations in lyrics are very helpful. Most of our songs have things like "[instrument solo]" and various instructions like that written into the lyrics. They don't get reliably observed, but good enough to steer the song.  Beyond that, it really depends on the song. I have a lot of detailed taste about what genres work well and which ones don't, but that's harder to quickly summarize.
LessWrong's (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing
Jeff Pyles40

I'd love to know what prompts and music styles were used to create each of the tracks - and I imagine others would too - so that we could each take the lyrics and music that we responded to most and have a go at making thematically cohesive albums out of them. 

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habryka360

Here is the Suno playlist which I think has all the styles and lyrics and prompts: https://app.suno.ai/playlist/ee2e7993-c6bc-4c7c-9975-db489ba0652a/ 

Beware though, in total I think we made around 3000 - 4000 song-generations to get the 15 that we felt happy about here. My guess is total effort per song was still somewhere in the 5-10 hours range or so, if you include all the dead ends and things that never worked out.

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