Post a hymn as a separate post so it can be referenced later and delivered in podcast form. These are the steps to create a hymn based on a sermon, compose the audio using artificial intelligence, create an instrumental version without vocals, create an image using artificial intelligence, edit audio tags for podcast preparation, and post it on a blog.
Lyrics Prompt
- I want to write a hymn to accompany a sermon. The Christian church is focused on love and compassion. The target audience is a conservative rural church in a small town that is focused on loving one another, on civic-minded people accepting people from all walks of life, and on open-mindedness toward various world religions, all of which are focused on moral commonality and deity. The age range is from children to seniors. Compose the lyrics and a description of the sound/genre/mood for a hymn based on an accompanying sermon. Include musical markers in square brackets, such as [chorus] and [verse]. Do not display emoji with the lyrics. The sermon is as follows: [sermon]
- [Add varying touches/edits]
- What can be improved on this sermon: [lyrics]
- [Fix/repeat prior step]
Title Prompt
Suggest titles with 3 words for the following hymn: [lyrics]
Blog Excerpt Prompt
Suggest an excerpt of 40 words to go along with the hym “[title]” that will appear as a blog post. Here are the lyrics: [lyrics].
Blog Post Tags
Keep the tags down to about three. You can use a prompt to make suggestions, but try to reuse tags and avoid adding “hymn” to various phrases.
Images
Image Prompt
Using Chat GPT or another large language model, use the following, or similar prompt:
Create an image prompt to instruct someone to design an image for a church hymn that reflects the hymn titled “[title]” with the following lyrics: [lyrics]
Image Generator
- Platform: DeepAI
- Style: Vintage Playing Card
- Model: Genius
- Theme: Classic
- Prompt: Past the previous prompt from above
Reduce Image File Size
- Image Editor: Gimp
- Image Size: 1024×1024
- Export: [Hymn Name].JPG
- Options
- Quality: ~25 (reduce until file size is around 100 kB)
- Show preview in image window: Yes
- Progressive: Yes
- Advanced Options
- Smoothing: 0.5
- Use arithmetic coding: Yes
Music Generator
Use a music generator that allows redistribution of generated songs (ie, Producer.ai). This usually requires a commercial license. Find a platform that allows the download of MP3 files, as well as the Stem files that can isolate vocals.
Use the [lyrics] and [sound description] created previously. Work with the music until you have something that you appreciate.
Download the MP3 file and Stems.
Instrumental Version
Some people like to sing along without vocals, so we need an instrumental version.
Use an audio editor such as Audacity to combine the stems and mute the vocal track. Export as an MP3 file with a variable bit rate around 145-185 kbps in Stereo. Do not focus on MP3 tags at this time.
Audio Metadata Tags
Find a program that allows you to edit the Meatadata tags of audio files (Tag Editor 2). Apply the following tags to both your [Title].mp3 and [Title] Instrumental.mp3 files:
| Tag | Vocals | Instrumental |
|---|---|---|
| Artwork | [Generated Image] | [Generated Image] |
| Title | [Title] | [Title] Instrumental |
| Artist | Light of Many Paths | Light of Many Paths |
| Album | Light of Many Paths Hymnals of [Year] | Light of Many Paths Instrumentals of [Year] |
| Genre | [Based on Sound – ie. Gospel; Country] | [Based on Sound – ie. Gospel; Country] |
| Year | [Year] | [Year] |
| Album Artist | Light of Many Paths | Light of Many Paths |
| Track | [Sunday # of [Year]] | [Sunday # of [Year]] |
| Tracks Total | [No of Sundays in Year] | [No of Sundays in Year] |
| Country | USA | USA |
| Recording Location | [Town, State] | [Town, State] |
| Artist Page | https://lightofmanypaths.com/ | https://lightofmanypaths.com/ |
| Category | Christianity | Christianity |
| Lyricist | [Your Real Name] | [Your Real Name] |
| Studio | [Music Platform Name] | [Music Platform Name] |
| Release Date | [Sunday – YYYY-MM-DD] | [Sunday – YYYY-MM-DD] |
| Explicit/Clean | C | C |
| Lyrics | [Lyrics – text only, no formatting or synchronization] | [Lyrics – text only, no formatting or synchronization] |
| Tag Format | ID3v2.4.0, ID3v1 | ID3v2.4.0, ID3v1 |
Post Format
- Title: [Title] Hymn
- Body
- Embed vocal audio file
- [lyrics]
- Embed instrumental audio file
- Excerpt: [40 word excerpt]
- Category: Podcast / Hymns
- Tags: [3 reusable themes]
- Image: [Image uploaded from MP3 file]
- Schedule: [Same Sunday as sermon at 6:00 AM]
Light of Many Paths 