How to Use Google Flow Music (Free AI Music Tool)

Google has a new AI tool that lets you create full songs just by typing what you want. It's called Google Flow Music. It's free to start. It's genuinely fun to use. And in this video, I'll walk you through everything you need to get going. We'll cover the basics of generating your first song, the voice mode that lets you talk to the AI like a producer, the save prompts that cut down on typing, and the interactive music toys called spaces, plus an honest look at what it actually cost. To find Google Flow music, head over to flowmusic. app.

I'll put the link down below in the description as well. Sign in with your Google account. There's no credit card needed to get started. Once you're in, you'll land on the dashboard. There's a lot going on in the screen, but for now, ignore most of it. The only thing we care about is the prompt box at the bottom. That's where everything starts. Okay. To create your

first song, just type any idea you have. It can be simple or detailed. The more detail you give, the better the results. But if you're stuck, just start with something basic. You can always refine it later. I'm just going to say an upbeat indie folk song, something you'd hear on a road trip. And I'm going to send this away. So Flow Music starts working on two different versions of your song. While it's generating, it's also creating cover art for each one. After about a minute, the songs are going to appear right down over here, and one will automatically start playing. I'm just going to go and pause it here. And you can see down here at the bottom, you have your standard music controls. You have play, pause, skip, and a timeline you can go and scrub uh through as well. Now, here's an important thing to know. Uh if you go ahead and listen to both of them. I'll just pause it and we'll listen to both.

You can go ahead and rate them over here with a thumbs up or thumbs down. And you might not think, well, that's not a big deal. Why would I do that? Well, this is just not for show. Every time you rate the song, the AI is going to get better at understanding what you actually like. So, if you want the music result to get better over time, just go ahead and give it those ratings because it could just help what you get. And you can take a look at the other uh quick actions we have that we can go remix, download video, share a link, and we also have some more actions over here as well. I did quickly want to show you the download video. So, I'm just going to click on it because you get to pick a template to create your video. And so, in this one, I'm just going to go ahead and pick this. Okay. So, here is the video that was downloaded. All it is a single picture and they're just taking the music and turning it into a video. I'm going to jump ahead because I realized we didn't listen to any of the lyrics

quite yet. Crossing the county line before the news came on. The air smelled cedar and damp pavement. Everything I knew was getting smaller in the glass. So, you notice it went through and picked a female singer there and everything and it actually added the vocals. Sometimes when you make some of the songs, the vocals don't automatically happen depending on what maybe genre you ask. Uh, in this case, it kind of recognized that the uh vocals would be there. So, it kind of did everything at once. If there's anything you don't like about your song, you can just go ahead and tell it. Just go and say try something different, you know? add different type of vocals, slow it down. You just tell what you want here and it will make those adjustments. You can also see that with Google Flow music, they kind of made these quick ways that, you know, you could use any of these suggested ones. So, if I wanted to try a faster tempo or uh a change to male vocals, if I go ahead and click it, it will just make those changes. Let's take a listen. came on the air smelled of cedar and damp pavement I knew. So you just tell it what you want to change and it will go ahead and do it. Every song you create is saved automatically.

If I go over to songs right here and click on it. Uh and then you'll see all the versions are there organized by session. So you won't lose anything that you make. All right. Now I want

to show you my favorite feature. It's called voice mode. and it's a lot more interactive than what you've seen in other AI apps. And I'm just going to click on it right here. Uh, make sure that your microphone uh, permissions are set to on so you can talk to it. I can press and hold here or just hold the letter P on my keyboard. I'm just going to hold the letter P and I'm going to show you what I can do. Hey, uh, can you make me uh, I want some warm acoustic guitar music. Something laidback, just instrumental, nothing too busy. Sure thing. I'll get that ready for you. Expect some warm, laid-back acoustic tracks coming up. Okay. Making two versions for you now. They'll be ready in a moment. I have noticed sometimes when doing this, um, they'll have a problem with one track and the two don't get created. Other times it works fine. And it's kind of interesting also because the AI will talk back. it it, you know, it's going to tell you what it's doing, ask clarifying questions if it needs to, and you can have an actual back and forth conversation while it's working. Check these out. Two mellow, laid-back acoustic tracks for you to vibe to. Well, those are pretty calm and mellow. I could just sit here and listen to this. I'm just going to pause this though because I want to show you how you can actually just keep on changing this. I'm going to hold down P again. And this time, you know, I like the vibe, but it feels a little flat. Can you add some light percussion to give it a little bit more energy? Got it. Let's punch it up a bit. I'll add some light mellow percussion to keep the warmth, but bring in some rhythm. All right, new versions are on the way. Hold tight. Got some fresh takes with a little more bounce. Give them a listen. How are these? Does the percussion bring the energy you were looking for? So, a little bit more energy. I want to listen to the other one and then we can go back and listen to the other ones. You can definitely tell the difference between the two of them. I like working with conversation with I AI. I feel it becomes more natural and you get more of what you want. Okay

there's one more input option worth knowing about. If I go ahead and click the plus here, uh you'll get three ways to bring in your own materials in. So recording lets you record audio directly into your session session. So if you have a melody stuck in your head, you can hum it and grab the guitar or play a few chords and flow music will use that as a starting point. Audio upload lets you bring in existing music files up to 40 megs. Uh that's handy if you have a rough demo. And then image upload lets you drop in a picture and inspire either the lyrics or the cover art. So you can bring that in. So you don't have to use any of these. Uh plain text prompt works just fine. But if you want more control over the starting point, this is where you go. Now, if we take a look at this here, and you'll see me come back to this

later when we uh talk about some personalization, but we also do have instruments. This lets you pick the underlying music model currently set to you can see which one here is the only one we have. We have ghostriter controls how lyrics are written. And we have standard by default, but you can change it as well. And we have producer. So, this is the reasoning mode. uh standard does deeper thinking for higher quality. Fast prioritizes speed over quality trade-off. So you can kind of you know think about how Gemini works and how that's applying here. Once you've used flow music for a while, you'll notice that you keep typing similar instructions over and

over. Maybe you always have a specific style or a particular vibe you keep coming back to. And that's where flows come in. So a flow is just a save prompt you can pull with a slash command. So, this is how we go ahead and create one inside of where we're prompting. But right here, if we go click on it, you notice we have custom producer. Now, I'm going to go to flows over here, and I'm going to give my flow a name. And we're going to say this is for uh let's say we have a coffee shop. I'm going to go new flow. And I'm just going to call it acoustic coffee house. Now, I'm going to give it uh a bunch of instructions in here for the type of music. So, let's say if I wanted to create a song in the style of acoustic, coffee house session, warm, intimate, and relaxed, uh, finger prere acoustic guitar. I'm not going to read the whole thing. I just want you to see what I'm putting in here. I'm going to go ahead and click create flow. Now, uh, what I can do, I can just go ahead and put forward slash the acoustic coffee house. And it doesn't seem like anything's happening in the prompt box, but trust me, it works cuz if we click send, notice that the instructions are coming here. The relax finger prick uh acoustic and the uh tempo here that we have, it's pulling from the instructions. So that can save you a lot of time in the workflow if you're noticing that you're doing this over and over again. Okay

so I showed you flows. I just want to point out instructions because they're kind of similar but different at the same time. So the difference is that instructions apply to every single song you make automatically and flows only kick in when you call them up. So whatever I type in over here will apply to every session going forward. So if you always want your songs to stay under 3 minutes or default to a certain tempo or avoid overly polished production, this is where that goes. So, you'll type that in and hit save. And you also can see that there's memories. Right now, I have them off, but I can turn them on and it's going to be from my conversation history. So, it can kind of take that information and bring them into here. Okay, spaces are probably the most underrated

feature in Flow Music, and they might be one of my favorite things to play with. Let me go over to spaces on the left over here, and I'm going to show you one that I already created, and then I'll walk through creating our own. But if I go ahead and it went through and created um the lyrics and everything the song, but we also get this interactive space here. So it's an interactive audio spaces that it creates with this. So we're going to go ahead and try to create something in this as well. But you can see everything gets coded in here as well. So let's go back over to we'll toggle this open and we'll go to our spaces and let's create a brand new space. They walk you through it pretty easily. So you can experiment with so many different ideas. But I want to show you is that you don't have to have it specifically about songwriting. So if I say a weather-based ambient music tool where I could adjust rain, wind, thunder to create the sound, I can go ahead and try something like that and it will build the app that I can probably adjust the different things in here. Okay. So quickly it comes back with this app. I'm going to go ahead and hit play. Whoa, that's some heavy duty rain here. Let's see if it makes a difference. Oh, yeah. I'll bring up the wind. Oh, okay. So, uh you can see it's kind of like this little app that it created from that coding here that it did. So, you can think about things a little bit differently than just straight songs all the time. When I go back to my spaces, you'll see all the different ones I create right inside here. Okay. So, I want to talk about pricing costs because I want to make sure that everybody

understands who gets what with this. Now, when you sign up for free, you get 500 credits every day. You log in, you get another 30. I want to point out this though. If you have plans and if I just click on my name here, you can see that there is pricing. But I'm just going to click on updates. And I just want to point out this. So, Flow Music is now included with Google AI plans and AI plus starter, AI uh Pro Plus, and Ultra. So, if you're not already subscribed, you can sign up. And so, it's connected. I want to make sure that you understand that when I actually signed up at first using I do have an Ultra account, but I didn't really realize that this was connected to this until I went over here and notice I had so many credits because that's why I was part of an ultra plan and I have lots of credits. You can also check out pricing here as well. So you can see with the free what you get and then they have the starter and the plus and the member. But then if you are a Google AI subscriber then this could be all included in yours. So I just wanted to make sure everybody knew about the different prices there. An instrumental song I would say runs about 10 credits and a song with lyrics cost anywhere from 15 to 30 credits. So on the free plan, you can make a few songs a day without paying anything. If you want more paid plans, you know, you can check that out as you need it. And that's the basics of Google Flow Music. If you're brand

new to this, here's the workflow that I would suggest. If you're just playing with it at first, start with a simple prompt. Listen to both versions. Rate them honestly. Then move on to voice mode and see what you get. And once you find a style, save it as a flow. If you're feeling curious, mess around with spaces. Thanks for watching this week on Teachers Tech. I'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials.