Beginner: Pick the Right Door
Know which Lyria surface you are standing in, pass the account gate, read the dropdowns, write the action-word prompt and run a listening pass before you keep a track.
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Google Lyria 3.5: The MWHQ User Guide
The complete MWHQ guide to Google’s Lyria 3.5 music model across the Gemini app, Google AI Studio and the Gemini API — the Create music path, structure tags and timestamp blocks, the no-edit-button workflow, cost per accepted track, SynthID and a rights ledger that treats every surface separately. 61 pages by Sir Leslie Jennings.
Intermediate: Direct the Arrangement
Structure tags, timestamp blocks, the iteration loop when there is no edit button, AI Studio, the API, reference images, stems and a song-to-video handoff.
Advanced: Prove What You Own
A per-surface rights ledger, what SynthID does and does not prove, disclosure, sync, scoring video, privacy, preview-model risk and the real return on investment.
What’s Inside
An honest guide to a fast model, with the rights work done.
A platform overview with numbered controls, then 12 Beginner, 12 Intermediate and 12 Advanced key points: the Gemini app Create music path, Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, cost per accepted track, stems, DAW polish, Flow Music and Vids, and the places where Google’s own pages and third-party reports disagree, taught the narrow way.
You finish able to turn a prompt, a photo or a set of lyrics into a usable song, document where it came from, and carry it through the MWHQ song-to-video-to-social chain with disclosure.
Written by Sir Leslie Jennings
Knowledge from 30 years at the intersection of music and technology.
Sir Leslie Jennings is the founder of M.U.S.I.C. World HQ and has spent three decades as a music technology reviewer, curriculum developer, and professional producer. This guide draws on that direct experience — not documentation rephrasing, but the kind of insight that comes from years of professional use.
The MWHQ approach: offer knowledge, not a workshop. Google, Gemini and Lyria are trademarks of Google LLC; this guide is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.
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Know which door you are using and what you can prove about the song.
Lyria makes it quick to get a full song from a prompt and easy to lose track of where it came from. This guide gives you the prompting method, the cost discipline and the rights ledger in one place.