I’ve previously shared quite a few free AI sites where users can use text-to-music tools to create songs – sometimes also showing the lyrics as the song is being sung, and sometimes not.

You can find those tools near the bottom of The Best Online Sites For Creating Music.

I’ve previously posted about Suno, which has really garnered steam with its release of a phone app and a Washington Post article celebrating it.  I have used it a lot recently to create personalized nursery songs for my grandchildren and fun songs for friends and other family members.

AI sites like Suno that provide the lyrics, along with the song, I think also have potential for use in the classroom.

MusicHero is another free AI tool that does just that.

Here’s a pop song about the value of working hard to learn English.

I could see students asking it, or Suno,  to create a pop song to help them learn the ten food-related vocabulary words we were learning that day.  It would be “their” song, and they might listen to it when, for example, they were walking to school that week.

And here’s a song it came up with and I gave it this prompt:

A pop song to help beginning English Language Learners remember when to use “have” and when to use “has.”

I’ll be trying this out during the coming school year.

Of course, the elephants in the room with this idea, along with any strategy that uses Artificial Intelligence, are the ethics of using tools trained on the work of creative people without their permission (most of these music-making apps were trained on copywritten songs and some of my books have been used to trained ChatGPT), and the ethics involved in using tools requiring enormous amounts of power in the age climate change.  We all have to decide if the educational benefits outweigh those ethical concerns.

I’m adding this info to The Best Music Websites For Learning English.