 So if you know who I am on YouTube, you probably know me as the guy who teaches you the way artists blow up these days, and that is largely imparted in undating their audience with content. So I always recommend that every artist maximizes every song they release by trying to get as much attention as possible for it, by constantly sustaining reminders to the audience that you already have and the people surrounding them so that they see it and listen to your music since that's the goal after all. But what I hear from you all all the time in the comments and on the Discord is that lyric videos and visualizers take too much effort and you've got real important things to do, like trying to get some Elden Ring or whatever. So since your time is clearly so valuable, I have really good news. I've teamed up with this amazing site called videobolt.net that helps you make lyric videos and visualizers for your music fast and they look amazing. So in this video, I'm gonna teach you to do just that. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, a music marketing nerd who's teaching musicians how to grow their fan base from zero to 10,000 fans and this is Muse Formation. Now before we get into the fun, it's important we go over some quick theory and I know some of you musicians and your simple brains hear that and the drool starts coming out of your mouth and the hamster spinning in the wheel and your brain starts to slow down. But here's the good news and I know you're gonna like this. This theory teaches you to do less work and focus your hard work where it's important. Straight up, the reason we first release a video of your song with just the album cover then two weeks later we release either a lyric video or a visualizer and then we release the music video is we need to continuously grab attention and I really respect the art around music but here's the thing, the lyric video is largely just for the audience to grow a deeper relationship with the song by knowing the lyrics, which they learn in a more enjoyable way in video form than reading them in the description of your YouTube video and if you make a visualizer, it's just to put visual imagery up on the screen so that people can ingest the song and be more intrigued with it and if I'm being honest, it gives you a reason to remind your audience your song exists without crying wolf over nothing and drawing the audience over to a big nothing burger of content. So I'm trying to say here is this should not be the greatest piece of art you've ever made and instead let's save that for the music video. We wanna perform function in these videos that also feels emotional and looks as good as possible but if you're taking tons of time and budget to make a lyric video or a visualizer, you're not putting your attention to where it should go which is the music video and that's why we're gonna enlist this great tool videobolt.net to help us out and let me just say before I start the tutorial as regular reviewers of this channel know I don't do a lot of these sponsorships. I really do sometimes consider putting up a scoreboard for how many times I turned down good money to do these sponsored videos but I refuse to put my name next to any product I think would do you all wrong. I really think this is a great tool that makes musicians' lives easier so I was happy to team up with them and seriously this whole integrity thing has me leaving money in these startups pockets to spend on things like candy walls for their employees when they could be lining my influencer pockets so I could afford those Todd Snyder jeans that have those really expensive pockets. So videobolt is an online browser based platform meaning that you don't need to download any software to use it. Everything happens online, no after effects or any other software download required which is good because I'm getting pretty good at editing video but that fusion or after effects stuff still makes no sense to me. Literally everyone can create lyric videos with it, no video editing skills needed but to me what's really cool about it is you can create amazing lyric videos in an intuitive online editor using templates designed by some of the world's top video designers. You can create other things on the platform too like visualizers, intros or promos even social media assets to promote your next show or your album but today we're gonna talk about the videobolt.net lyric video maker specifically and let me give you some good news if you wanna follow along with me right now, you can because you can test out everything for free and not pay unless you're psyched on the video you make while we do this. And they have a whole bunch of different pricing plans so depending on whether you wanna pay monthly or yearly and how much content you think you're gonna need to make you can choose a tier that makes sense for yourself. Okay so let's crack open videobolt.net and make a lyric video and you can see how simple this is as I do it for the first time myself. All right so this is the first screen you'll see and so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go over to solutions as you can see lyric videos with a nice new sticker on it. So we're gonna click lyric videos and remember you don't even need to log in or sign up yet to do this. So here you'll see all the templates they have. There are over 2700 video templates available on the platform which are not only lyric templates because you can also create music visualizers, intros, promos, and slideshows with the same subscription. That includes making flyers for your shows and all sorts of things. So we're gonna choose a template. I always try to think about the emotion of a song so the song we're gonna be using is one that you may have heard in previous videos. It's by a project called Echo DDT that my bud Zach does. The song is called A Million Reasons to Cry. I mixed and mastered it, I really loved the song so the other thing is it has really simple lyrics so it makes it really easy to do one of these four. So let's look through these templates. As you can see there's a pretty good variety, it's pretty easy. So I feel like the ones I see here, I mean this is fun for like a certain type of thing but I feel like this song is a little poppy and bouncy for this. This feels good because the song's a little lonely and you know, that's some lonely imagery. I'm gonna choose this. Plus like it's got kind of the hyper pop thing and we all know the kids in that genre love the anime. So let's look at this. Yeah, this looks absolutely perfect. Feels like the emotional song, I like the little heart down there. But one cool thing is so as you can see too, if you wanna make this for Instagram or TikTok, you can do that with the 916 there. All right, so we're gonna click edit to go in and make this and this is what it's gonna want you to log in. I've already made an account so I'm gonna go do that. So we're gonna name it the song title. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna add the track. So as you can see here, you can do a MP3 wave flack or M4A. I suggest doing a wave since that's the best quality but you can also import from SoundCloud, which is pretty cool. I have a wave because I mastered it so easy enough. Nice quick upload. So now we wanna select the part of the song. So since I mixed and mastered this, I could see that the chorus is where the wave gets more flat line since you know, that's how I do. All right, that's a good place to do the preview. Okay, so the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna add the lyrics. So you can use one of these .SRT files, which is like a file that links to a timeline and I could say how long it is. It's what people use for subtitles, but I'm not a nerd so I don't know how to do that. So I'm just gonna add lyrics manually because I'm not a nerd. I'm good to do a little bit of justice with this nerd thing, but here we go. Create lyrics. And so it's gonna ask me to paste the lyrics. So I have the lyrics over here. Just gonna do a chorus. Wanna keep this nice and short. So you're gonna see how simple this is. So doing a whole song would just be repetitive. It's really, it's unbelievably simple. The simplest I've ever seen of any lyric video maker. All right, so you paste it here and then you write the fill from lyrics and look at that. It's all broken down into different lines right there. There's a whole thing on shortcuts to do all this, but I gotta tell you it's super, super easy. So we go to this one. And so I figured out what the chorus is about right over here. All right, so what I do is I then hit, so you see how there's these markers? You can see exactly where to drop everything as you hear it. So I hit the letter Q on the keypad and it drops the first line in. So then I listen back. I'm gonna look for the end of that lyric. And you know, we've broken these lyrics up into kind of similar amounts so that they're big across the screen. We want that to be consistent. If you just pasted all the lyrics up there, they'd be really tiny and no one could read them. So we wanna have them consistently be around the same length. As you can see there, it's not totally the same length, but like relatively there within, you wouldn't want triple the length. Then it starts to get ridiculous. Look at that. How easy is that? So now that we're done making this lyric file, you just go like this, hit save. Hit save. Creates a little file. And you close out of here. We just saved it so you can hit close without saving. And there's your lyrics. Let's look at this bad boy. So simple. So some other cool things you can do. They do have all these other themes that are related to this. Like, I mean, this one's kind of cool. We can, here, let's actually take a look at that. Like, you know, I feel like this song's about how he wants to be with his friend. You know, well, anime they and anime them, you know, like just hanging out, walking through a really big cloudy mountain like anime people do. This is really cool because like it really allows you to have your own personality of the video. And with that, all right, but I am going to go back to the original one. I guess it feels like more like the emotion of the song. And what's even cool too is let's say you actually have your own art that you think will be cool since like, you know, these are largely just single screens with some animation around it. If you make your own animation, like, you know, this has, you can actually upload that yourself too. So then the other thing that you can do is customize. So you got all these different fonts. You can do Google fonts. Wow, you can even upload a font that's pretty cool. So if you have a font that you use for your style, you can do that. That is pretty interesting. Oh, different languages. Look at that. Wow. So even two, you can blur some of it. You can desaturate. You can do all sorts of things to tweak this. There's even a different color scheme. So if you have like colors for your brand, you can match that. That's really pretty awesome. Oh, so we got these advanced controls. Oh, I love that. So Google fonts is really a well, as we would say, of a lot of fonts. Really, really usable stuff too. Always impressive. Yeah, let's just do bangers because it's fun. See now you have a whole different font for this. We go back, look at that. Yeah, love that. And you can really tweak this a lot. Like if you are the type of person who really wants to get specific, they got so many different little ways to tweak it. I have to say that that is really, really cool. Okay, I'm happy with this. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click produce and download. Yeah, I wanna produce that. And then the video renders. Okay, then you have your finished video here, which you can download here or as a zip. You can also share it with people or publish it right to YouTube if you just sign into YouTube. I wanna show you one last thing and that's that you can also make visualizers for your music. So as you can see here, there's tons of different styles. Like really a ton to choose from and just like the Lyric videos, once you get in there, you can also change little things about the theme. Really customize it to yourself. They also have tons of templates that'll work well for like making one of those intro videos for your YouTube channel or a video to promote your show or your record. With all those credits you get, you can do tons of stuff and really make it worth your while. If you don't get that, just remember I answer every question in the comments below. Look at that, you now have a Lyric video. Also, before you pay for it, you should head to the description of this video where I have a discount link where you get 10% off your first purchase with Video Bolt. 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