Every song in this book started as somebody's knowledge — a singer, a composer, a group, a place. An editor is the person who takes that recording and makes it exact: the words, who sings which line, what it means. Nothing reaches a student until an editor has done that by ear. That's the job — and it's how real knowledge, kept by real people, gets passed to whoever's coming next without losing anything on the way.
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You apply
The form below. Every application is read closely — the one thing that matters is knowing who is putting words in front of students.
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You hear back
If you're taken on, you get an email with your own link to the CANTO studio. Keep it to yourself — it's how the studio knows it's you.
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You add a song
In the studio there's an Add a song page. Upload an MP3, or paste a link — add as many as you like, they queue up.
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One person approves it
Each song waits for one OK before work starts on it — the book grows on purpose, not by accident.
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Your studio opens, blank
The moment it's approved, your studio opens with the full recording and nothing filled in yet — no guessed words, no guessed breaks. That part is yours now, not a machine's.
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You listen and type
This is the real work. Split the recording where each phrase actually starts and stops, and type every word — by ear. Mark who sings, which toque, who wrote it, if you know.
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You press Ready
When it's right, you press Ready for the songbook. That's the confirmation of every line — nobody checks 27 boxes.
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It joins the songbook
One more read-through, and it's live — with the words, the meaning, the pronunciation, and the recording lighting up syllable by syllable.
One thing worth saying plainly: nobody guesses anymore, and nobody has to fix a guess. You listen and you write down what's actually there. That's the whole first pass now — yours, not a machine's. What you write is what students learn.
Every application is read closely. Being an editor is a responsibility — what you write is what students learn.