 Hey it's Herman here again on Artlist and after years of using Artlist I've noticed how much faster I've been in finding my perfect song. That's why I want to share some of the tricks and tips that I learned so that you too can find your perfect song faster and even discover hidden gems along the way. Let's go! I ever felt overwhelmed by too many options. When it feels like I'm looking for a needle in a haystack, Artlist's filtering system is a lifesaver. It's usually the first place that I go when I'm starting my search. Now let's say that I need a song for my video where my cat's on this epic journey to space. Now obviously this is make believe because I don't have a cat. So I like to start off with moods over here on the left and I'll click epic and this gets me kind of in the ballpark of what I'm looking for and then clicking more filters will get me even closer so maybe exciting dramatic yeah an epic journey to space of course and then I can move over to the next filtering option which is video theme and this helps me narrow things down now it's an adventure so maybe it's travel because the cat's traveling the space next we move over to genre and because it's kind of like a sci-fi theme I can go for something that's like electronic you know cinematic because I'm going for something quite dramatic now sometimes when I really want to dial things down I'll filter by instruments now I'm a huge sucker for synths because they give this awesome cyberpunk vibe and I'm all about that so let's go into instruments and I can go down to synths and now we have some amazing options over here that we can scroll down and check out and those are the main filtering options I use before I start sifting through the song results what's what's that you have something even more specific in mind don't worry so do I and having a clear vision of what you're looking for makes such a huge difference in finding your perfect song luckily artless is like a swiss army knife with its additional sorting options so on the top over here you can see that it's sorted by staff picks but you can click it and now you have options to sort of by top downloads or newest song it's really helpful if you live on this platform now the next option is vocal and instruments that you can choose for there to be vocals or just instrumental now I usually like to have just instrumentals because I have narration on top of the time and I don't really want like the vocals to be distracting or anything like that sorry singers and rappers now right next to it we can even choose the bpm which is the speed of the song so we can put our own values or we can just pick slow song or fast song or somewhere in between but in this case I'm just gonna clear it because I'm quite flexible for what I'm looking for and next to it you can even choose the duration of the song having so many options it's always so satisfying using all these filters and it really helps with nailing the right atmosphere here's the song I landed on for my space cat adventure after applying all the filtering options usually take my time going through the music results because it's quite fun discovering new songs and just feeling the vibe music is usually the last thing that I compromise on because of how important of a role that it plays in setting the mood of your video but sometimes I'm faced with the reality of my client wanting to swap music at the very last minute this is how many times it's happened this year already high five if you're in the same boat and don't worry because we actually have a solution for when you're on a crunch keyboard shortcuts let you get through songs faster than it takes to develop a migraine from sticky client situations all you have to do is press the letter k on your keyboard to bring up all the shortcuts that you can use on artlist as you can see you can easily skip forward in the song that you're listening to or just move on to the next track you can even change the volume all where the keyboard so if I'm playing a song like this and I'm just like I'm not really feeling it maybe a different part of the song might sound better so I'm just skipping forward to the middle and it's not quite right so let's skip over to the next track just like that and all I'm doing is just clicking some keyboard shortcuts I'm not even touching the mouse so if you ever walk by me and it looks like I'm hacking into the matrix I'm probably just going through songs at 50 songs per second now here is an awesome tip if you're working with art list while you're editing so if you got two monitors like I do then you can put your project on one of the monitors and you can put art list on the other now this setup lets you browse songs while you're watching your footage and you can use keyboard shortcuts just like you would in your editing software so not only does it feel like second nature but it's also incredibly efficient give it a try now do you sometimes listen to a track and you think to yourself ah so close yet so far finding a song that's almost perfect can be quite frustrating that's where this button comes into play if I go over here and click the similar songs button it'll give me a few more options to choose from it's like having a personal music assistant by my side and let me show you just how similar the results are by first playing our original track and now one of the similar options still in the same vibe but you've got more to choose from to really nail down your perfect song now another thing I like to do is to dive deeper into the artist's work by going into the same album that the song belongs into so let's click over here and I can see all the other songs now this gives me a few more options that are still within the same vibe and I know the style is going to be consistent because it's from the same artist now spear fisher is actually one of my favorite artists in the art list catalog you remember when I said I was really into synths well this was one of the songs that I've used in a project before whenever I listen to his music it's like I'm transported into a whole new world and the cool thing is there are so many other artists on our list who make you feel the exact same way with their songs so here's another song and I want to show you that this is also a great way to find instrumental versions of the same song that you're looking for or even no lead vocals versions so you have a lot of options to play with again sorry singers and rappers now sometimes when I'm still on the fence about a song and I needed to marinate a little bit longer in my head what I'd like to do is hit the star icon next to a song so for example right over here this song I can add it to the favorites and that way I can always go to my library right over here and then go to songs and sounds for me to dig it back up again there are also times where I feel like this song is an absolute banger but it's just not right for this specific video it happens a lot and I don't want to lose the song or have to find it again in the future and that's why saving it into a collection is my favorite way to stay organized so let's say I want to save this top track over here it's going down I just go to the three dots over here go to add to collection and I've got a few collections that I've already made so far already as you can see I sort them out by like different moods different genres and this helps me save so much time by going back to them instead of searching from scratch and you can sort them by their mood or the projects they belong in saving songs into collections like this is my number one time saving tip on here now remember how I mentioned last minute music changes earlier I know I'm trying to forget about it too sometimes what I like to do is share a song to my client so I just hit the three dots and I have the option to email it directly to my client or I can copy the link of the song and if I go to my collections I can even share links to my collections as well you see it's not just about finding the perfect song for yourself but also your client they'll appreciate having a say and you'll avoid unexpected surprises now do you ever feel like you're having one of those off moments where you lack inspiration too often am I just staring at my screen drawing a blank when I should be creating so the final thing I want to go over is something I've actually started doing quite recently and it's browsing the spotlight page it's got curated music and sound effects collections that really helped me get my gears turning in my head so I just click spotlight on the left over here there's a curated weekly collection that gets updated with a different theme each week which keeps things absolutely fresh now what I really like are the collections that are inspired by tv shows or movies in this case oh we got one that's inspired by John Wick now I watched John Wick four not too long ago so let's click in and check it out what do we got over here okay oh this song makes me want to avenge my dog I don't have a dog either I'm learning how much I want a pet now so those are all the ways that I find my perfect song on artlist and by following these tips finding yours has never been easier you'll be making your best videos and your viewers will be left asking where do they find that amazing music these tips can also be applied to their sound effects footage and templates making sure that you find all the high quality assets your video deserves so check out our list for all your video creating needs and don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you want more videos that empower you as a creator otherwise I'll see you in the next one