Music Spotting Sheet with Tempo Math and Licensing
Spot music against your story beats: timed cues, tempo math so hits and endings land on the cut, levels under VO, and license checks.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
Music can make or break the emotional impact of a video. You'd want to think about the tone and pacing of your visuals, then find music that matches. There are lots of royalty-free libraries out there, and you can browse by mood or genre. Some people like to start with a song they love and then build the video around it, while others find the music after the edit. It really depends on your style. What kind of content are you making and what's the vibe you're going for?
MUSIC & SOUND CUE PLAN for your video VIDEO STRUCTURE (3 min) 0:00-0:15 → Hook: Rapid cuts, upbeat (establish energy) 0:15-1:45 → Main story: Slower build, emotional arc 1:45-2:30 → Climax: Peak tension 2:30-3:00 → Resolution: Calm, reflective CUE STRATEGY (emotion-first) Hook: 140 BPM upbeat indie (grab attention, no lyrics) Story: 100 BPM cinematic strings (reinforce narrative stakes; swap to vocal at 1:10 for emotional peak) Climax: Builds from 100 to 130 BPM (tension rises with video momentum) Resolution: 80 BPM ambient/reverb (wind down; listener exhales) SOUND DESIGN LAYERS • Main music bed: 70% volume • Ambient texture (under-bed): subtle, continuous (20% volume) • Impact sounds (door close, notification) on key cuts (10% volume, panned) • Silence: Strategic 1-2 sec pauses after emotional moments (gives breath) CROSS-FADE TIMING All song transitions: 2-3 sec overlap (no hard cuts) Example: Story section music fades in during last 2 sec of hook audio RESULT: Viewer feels guided through emotional journey, not jolted by music swaps.
About this skill
One bed track under the whole video flattens the story. The drop lands six frames after the reveal, the song gets faded out mid-phrase on the last shot, and a 'royalty-free' track still pulls a Content ID claim. This skill plans the music beat by beat and does the math editors usually do by feel.
What it does
- Spots cues to story decisions: bed, build, stinger, hit, source, deliberate silence, and the final button
- Solves tempo and frame math so a hit lands on a specific bar and beat, including frame-friendly tempos for 24, 25, and 30 fps
- Fixes a missed hit or a too-long track in a set order: slide the cue, cut whole bars, nudge picture, small time-stretch, then swap the track
- Back-times endings so the final hit lands on the last frame or the logo
- Sets music levels under voiceover and names delivery loudness targets to confirm
- Flags licensing gaps: royalty-free tiers, Content ID, sync and master rights, platform music libraries, AI music terms, and broadcast cue sheet data
What you get
A timed spotting sheet with function, treatment, hit points, and levels per cue, plus the tempo and edit math, library search terms or AI music prompts for each cue, and a licensing checklist.
Best for
Video editors, YouTubers, documentary and brand-film makers, and small studios scoring story-driven videos with library, commissioned, or AI-generated music.
SKILL.md preview
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name: music-spotting-sheet
description: Plans music against a video's story beats - a timed spotting sheet for where each cue enters, hits, goes silent, and ends, frame-accurate tempo math so hits and endings land on the cut, bar-level edits to fit length, levels under voiceover, library search terms or AI music prompts per cue, and a licensing check. Use when the user says "where should the music go", "plan the music for my video", "my video feels flat", "make the drop land on the reveal", "the music ending doesn't line up with my last frame", "this track is 20 seconds too long", "what BPM should I pick", or "is this track safe for YouTube and ads".
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