Make + Share an Original AI Track
Maps to: Music Producer · Composer, Sound Designer, Recording Artist
You're going to make an original 2 to 3 minute track, design its cover, and share it. The skill is the choosing: generating a dozen versions and being able to say why one of them is the one and the others aren't. That's the ear of a music producer, the call about what a track actually needs, and doing one of these shows you fast whether trusting your taste like that is your kind of work.
The plan
0/4 doneYou're 20% in just for starting, the hardest part. Mark your first step done to keep the momentum.
Decide what you're making: the genre, the mood, the theme. If it's vocal, write 2–3 lines of lyrics. This brief is what you'll judge every generated version against.
Objective: A genre/mood/theme brief (plus lyric lines if vocal).
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Pick your angle: a genre you love, a mood for a moment (study, late-night drive), a pastiche of two genres, or a track for a specific scene.
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Write the vibe in a line, plus 2 to 3 lyric lines if it's vocal.
Your call
Pick the genre, mood, and theme yourself (and lyric lines if vocal).
The one feeling the track should give.
What good looks like: Your brief is specific enough to be a yardstick: when generations come back, you can immediately say which ones missed the vibe and which got close.
- The clearer your vibe, the easier it is to know when a generation is wrong.
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The bar to look back against
A 2 to 3 minute track that sounds intentional (genre and mood chosen, iterated past the first result), a cover that matches, and a shared link with at least one real listener, and you can say in a sentence why your pick beats the versions you threw away. The choosing is the work: not 'the AI made a song,' but 'I chose the one, and I can say why.'
Finish the final step, then submit what you built. Your progress is saved.
Tools you'll use
Step 2 · Generate the track, then pick THE one
Step 3 · Art-direct the cover
Steps 4–5 · Share it + close
How this shows up on a resume or college app
I composed and released an original track using AI tools, designed its cover art, and shared it, choosing the one version that worked out of many and being able to say why. I learned where the AI ends and my taste begins: anyone can generate, but choosing the one is the skill.