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GETTING STARTED
Simple Mode
How do I write a Simple Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?
MAKING MUSIC
How do I make the song longer?
My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
Why can’t I hear my lyrics?
METATAGS
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Verse and Chorus

Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

STYLE AND LYRICS

Style & Genre List
Prompts for AI Dance Music by mista.lewys
Should my Style Prompt use commas?
How do I make an Instrumental?
Voice Hallucinations
Are Duets Possible?

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GETTING STARTED
Simple Mode
How do I write a Simple Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?
MAKING MUSIC
How do I make the song longer?
My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
Why can’t I hear my lyrics?
METATAGS
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Verse and Chorus

Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

STYLE AND LYRICS

Style & Genre List
Prompts for AI Dance Music by mista.lewys
Should my Style Prompt use commas?
How do I make an Instrumental?
Voice Hallucinations
Are Duets Possible?

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Getting Started
New to Suno?

An official app for ios has been released!

Suno.com generates music and lyrics from a text prompt.
Do not enter your login or account credentials in any other website or app.
‘Simple’ mode uses 1 short description prompt to generate a song with
lyrics and voice in a popular music style.
‘Custom’ mode gives more options, with separate prompts for the lyrics
and music style.
Songs might not finish with just one generation, there is an option to Extend
a clip to extend the song’s length with another audio clip.
Getting Started FAQ:
Simple Mode
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How do I write a Simple Prompt?

Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?

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Simple Mode
Simple mode uses one descriptive prompt to create a song.
Switch off Custom Mode.
The Song Description can be a train of thought, a mood, or a general idea
of the song.

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The prompt will be interpreted by an AI language model. Lyrics and music

are generated together.
Suno will return 2 clips, based on an AI generated style description and AI
generated lyrics. The ‘song’ may be longer or shorter than the maximum
audio length.
v1 Discord – up to 40sec (retired)
v2 WebApp – up to 80sec
v3 WebApp – up to 120sec
v3.5 WebApp – up to 240sec
the clips will appear on the Create page, and in your Library:

Each thumbnail is also a play/pause button for the Suno music player.
Make a longer song
Each clip can be extended with another clip to create a longer song.
How do I make the song longer?

Simple Mode
How do I write a Simple Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
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How do I write a Simple Prompt?
The ‘simple’ 1-prompt generates AI lyrics and a random music style.
Supply it with an idea, or specific story-scenario. Moods and genre-styles
work too.
a children's birthday sing-along about Alice visiting the
zoo

Torchy-lounge song from the POV of a piano player working

at a speak-easy who wants to go home because "It's Closing
Time"

Don’t get too specific with instrumentation or sub-genres. Use Custom

Mode instead which splits the Style and Lyrics into separate prompts.
Simple Mode
How do I write a Simple Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?
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Custom Mode: How do I write

a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode
Custom Mode splits the text prompts into 2 panels, a Lyric Generator and a
Style of Music prompt. Each has a random generator, and a text box to
enter your own.
The Lyric Generator can build on your story idea, similar to Simple Mode.
It will generate formatted lyrics, which can be edited or expanded. Add your
ideas to the box and hit Generate Lyrics. Of course we can edit the text
before creating the song.
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The Lyrics box will hold around 1250 characters, and a bit more for v3.5

How do I control the style of music?

Style of Music isn’t just the music’s genre, it also includes the mood and
sub-genre descriptions, instruments, and vocal tags. it might be very
simple, or a comma-separated list.
Sultry RnB
Upbeat Country, Female vocal
Mississippi Blues, sparse harmonica, acoustic guitar, stomp
bittersweet Hindustani Electro-pop, melodic sarad, ornamental
singing
Th St l f M i b ill h ld d 120 h t
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when you are finished editing, hit the Create button:

Less Is More:
As a general rule, very short prompts seem to create the cleanest audio
quality, when the creative details are left up to the AI.
In contrast, mashing-up genres and long detailed prompts of specific
instruments and styles are more likely to suffer from poor audio quality.
A very short prompt seems to have more variety, while a detailed prompt
may feel narrow and repetitive as if the AI has fewer options to choose
from.
Where is the full list of genres?

Suno uses a Large Language Model to convert the Style Prompt into music.
Any word might be linked with a time period, a culture, specific song
patterns, and emotions.
Don’t be limited by pre-conceived ideas of conventional music genres. It’s
generative AI, not a database of samples. Explore!
No, really. Where is the list of genres?
Style & Genre List Suno-tested style prompts
Prompts for AI Dance Music by Mista.Lewis full PDF
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wikipedia: Glossary of music terminology

wikipedia: List of music genres and styles
Getting Started FAQ:

Simple Mode
How do I write a Simple Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?

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Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?
AI Lyric Generator
Suno’s Lyric Generator uses ChatGPT with a custom template. It will
typically generate 2 verses and 1 chorus, with around 8-lines each. This
length is often too short for the 1st clip (2min) and too long for an Extend
clip (1min). The actual runtime will depend on the genre and tempo of the
song.
Suno’s music will be strongly influenced by the poetic-structure, including
the number of syllables on each line, the pauses, and which words rhyme.
AI lyrics tend to follow basic patterns which might make the song ‘generic’,
even changing the genre to fit the lyrics.
Here are some tricks to get better results from the Lyric Generator:
In the generator prompt
add a POV – even inanimate objects and abstract ideas can be the focus
add a conflict – songs can be a moment in time where the outcome is
uncertain
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add details – AI is very good at expanding on ideas, not as good at

inventing original ideas.
After the lyrics are generated
edit with ‘scissors’ – AI adds a lot of filler that rhymes but doesn’t
contribute. Cut or change any phrase that isn’t about your song. Fewer
words, but they all carry weight.
play with meter and phrasing – give the lines different word-lengths.
Make the verse and chorus follow different patterns.
add line-breaks and punctuation to insert short pauses and change the
rhythm. Hyphenated words will run together.
use ad-libs – phrases in () may be interjected by the main singer, or sung
by backup singers, altering the flow of the song.
There’s nothing wrong with using AI to generate song lyrics, but a human
touch can always improve them.
Write Your Own
You know…, draw the rest of the owl.
Suno is wonderful at converting a regular block of text into something
musical – even user manuals and error messages make surprisingly
listenable songs.
Songs made entirely of short repeated phrases (even single words) are all
‘hook’. Suno will create ridiculously catchy melodies guaranteed to get stuck
in your head!
Original lyrics are copyrightable.
Covers and Parodies
Suno asks that only original lyrics are used, and censors the names of
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Cover songs and parodies are legal, but Suno cannot enforce the licensing
and royalties owed to the publisher. Suno’s Trending pages make hosting
this content legally problematic.
Of course covers will sneak through but may be removed from Suno’s
website and Discord.
Other Lyric Generators
a list is coming soon…
Getting Started FAQ:
Simple Mode
How do I write a Simple Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write a Style Prompt?
Custom Mode: How do I write lyrics?

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Making Music
Each ‘job’ creates 2 clips at a time. The length of the audio depends on
which model is being used, the amount of lyrics, possibly the style/genre,
and the random number generator that is AI.
Full songs are created 1 clip at a time using Extend. The 1st clip is the
longest, the continued ‘parts’ are shorter because some of their memory is
used to listen to the end of the clip before.
Each Extend generates 2 more clips, and costs credits.
When the song comes to an end, use Get Whole Song to stitch all the clips
in 1 seamless full-length clip. Get Whole Song is free (no credits). Full songs
can also be extended.
Making Music FAQ
How do I make the song longer?
My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
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How do I make the song longer?
Extend a clip or a full song with another clip, up to 1min.
This function is available in all three Suno plans: Free, Pro and Premier.
(costs the same tokens as a regular generation)
1. click the EXTEND button on the clip you wish to extend

Extend from the original clip to create Part 2…

Extend from Part 2 to create Part 3…
Extend from Part 3 to create Part 4…
… and so on, until the song reaches the end.
Each generation will be labeled next to the clip’s name, but 2 clips are
created with each job. You will see two Part 2, and two Part 3… If you re-roll
a generation you may see more.
Selecting a continued clip will highlight the earlier parts, visible on the
Create page.
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Get Whole Song

on the final clip, click on the […] button and choose: Get Whole Song. The
resulting clip will have all the parts stitched together seamlessly as 1 audio
clip.
TIPP: You can also use “Get Whole Song” >in between< … For example : If
you have extended Part 1 with a Part 2, “Get Whole song” from these two
and then Extend the result with a Part 3.
No credits are charged for Get Whole Song. The resulting clip will be
labeled as a Full Song.

It is also possible to Extend a Full Song.

Extend From
The selected clip will load into the Extend From panel. All generations will
be continued from the end of this clip.
The Create Button will change to say ‘Continue’

Use the Clear button to unload the clip from the panel.
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Extend From Time

New in v3 – a timestamp window appears within the Continue From panel in
the format 01:55 (minutes:seconds). Use this feature to continue from an
earlier time within the clip.
Extend from Time is useful when:
the song ended too soon, and can’t continue the usual way
there’s mistake in the text or singing
you don’t like the end of the clip
you want to force the song to change it’s style
create an instrumental lead-in before lyrics.
Change the Lyrics for the next part
switch on Custom Mode to get the 2-prompts: Lyrics and Style.
You will probably want to change the lyrics to continue with another verse
and chorus. For tips see:
My words are wrong after Continue
You may change the style prompt, or keep it the same.
Related FAQ:
How do I make the song longer?
My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
Why can’t I hear my lyrics?

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My words are wrong after Continue
Singing random words from somewhere else in the song, repeating a
section from the last clip, or singing gibberish hallucinations are all signs the
bot has lost its place in the lyrics.
It may pick up the song later in the clip and continue as if nothing
happened, or it may hallucinate and never return to the lyrics.
Extend from Time
New in v3 – Use Extend from Time and select a timestamp where the music
has a clean transition.
What’s the best way to continue the lyrics?
There is no hard rule that works every time, and it might depend on how
quickly the words are sung:
If the lyrics are slow, try picking up with the next word.
If the lyrics are fast, try adding a line or two that have already been sung
as a lead-in.
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Try one technique. If it doesn’t work, try the other. Eventually you will
develop an ear for which method is more likely for a particular song.
Making Music FAQ:
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My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
Why can’t I hear my lyrics?

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Extend from Time
New in v3 – Extend from Time (formerly Continue from…) gives us flexibility
to save clips that previously would have been discarded.
For example, when a clip gets cut-off mid-sentence, it’s hard to know where
to pick up the lyrics in the next part. Extend from Time allows us to extend
the clip from before the problem.

The Timestamp uses the format 01:55 (minutes:seconds). It seems best to

pick a time just ahead of the point in the music.
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the song ended too soon, and can’t continue the usual way
there’s mistake in the text or singing
you don’t like the end of the clip
you want to force the song to change it’s style
create an instrumental lead-in before lyrics.
Extended clips use up some of their memory to ‘listen’ to the clip before.
Suno hasn’t confirmed how much of the previous clip is sampled, but based
on the difference between the length of the 1st clip and the continued parts
we can assume it’s around 1min.
Instrumental Intro
It’s possible to force a song to have an instrumental intro by starting with an
instrumental prompt. Use Extend from Time to choose where the lyrics
should begin, and create a Part 2 at that timestamp.
Extend from a Full Song
if you are extending from time on a Part 2, and the timestamp is less than 1
minute, it’s better to Get Whole Song and then Extend from the Full Song,
so the bot can ‘hear’ more of the song…
Sudden style change
if you want to do a sudden style change, we can extend from time (where
the change should happen) then extend on that clip and set the timestamp
super short (00:01) – this 2nd clip only has a 1sec memory of the song so it
will be easy to change with a style prompt…
basically use Full Songs when you want the bot to hear the most…, and
force it to forget using 2 extends in a row…
Making Music FAQ:
How do I make the song longer?
My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
Why can’t I hear my lyrics?
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How do I end the song?
These tips can help, but remember each generation is random. It’s better to
pick a ‘good’ ending than to burn through credits hoping for a ‘perfect’
ending.
Song Structure
Songs generate clips with endings after a full verse and chorus cycle. It can
also resist ending if it has more of the cycle left to complete.
If the song ends abruptly within the 1st clip, you might need to structure the
song with lyrics and metatags.
Outro or Refrain
It can help to ‘wrap up’ the song in a final Extend. These will typically fill the
clip with improvised music and lyrics before triggering an ending:
[Outro]
[Refrain]
[Finale]
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[Big Finish]
repeat the chorus twice
repeat an ad lib or short phrase as a hook.
End Tags
End tags can abruptly end of the song. Fades should be a gentler fadeout
to the end, and stop the clip:
[End]
[Fade Out]
[Fade to End]

Use ‘end’ in the Style

A more aggressive method is to clear the Style and Lyric prompts
completely, and prompt for an end only.
Clear the Style Prompt and replace it with the word ‘End’.
Add an [End] tag to the Lyrics Prompt.
v3.5 ignores End prompts
Although v3.5 can end the song, it often doesn’t want to. It will sometimes
create a false ending then start the song again.
Some users reported good results with [ending] to end a song. Its worth a
try. If it still doesnt work try the following workaround:
A workaround is to switch to v3:
1. Set Extend From Time to after the final chorus or outro
2. switch to v3
3. in the lyric box type
[end]
nothing else
4. OPTIONAL : use the style “end, short” to force very short parts in
addition to the above mentioned steps.
Endless Loop
Some genres might to settle into a loop that doesn’t progress, or an outro
that never fades out
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There’s always the option to edit your song in a DAW. Trim the end of a clip,
or create a manual fade-out with free audio editing software.

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Why can’t I hear my lyrics?
Chirp has a strong random element to keep the songs interesting.
Sometimes a clip won’t sing, even with the same prompt.
But if both clips fail to sing, there might be a problem with the style prompt
or metatags.
Some common problems:
Chirp doesn’t know how to sing this text.
Chirp decided the song needs a very long introduction, maybe longer
than the clip.
Chirp has received conflicting instructions and choked.
your lyrics may be too long.
A lot of things can go ‘wrong’, so it can help to simplyfy. Remove
experimental metatags, and try a simpler Style Prompt.
Describe the voice
It can help to add a specific voice description to the Style Prompt:
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upbeat female vocals
sultry male singer
Learn more about Voice Tags
Musical Intro is too long
Prompts and style descriptions seem to work best when they are short and
simple. Try fewer or simpler tags before the first vocal.
Bad
[Intro Drums]
[Intro Bass]
[Intro Guitar]

better
[Instrumental Build]

Learn more about structuring a song with Metatags

Get the Voice First
Try adding a short vocalization before the intro prompt, or even an a
cappella. Get the voice to do something (anything) before the music starts.
(Ahh ahh ahh)
[Catchy Hook]

[Verse 1]
Dancing in the neon lights…
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Why can’t I hear my lyrics?

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Metatags
Metatags are song instructions inside the lyrics. They use square-brackets
to set them apart from the words that should be sung.
Some tags are more reliable than others, and some tags only work inside
the appropriate genre.
Keep it simple
Tags seem to work best with a maximum of 3 words.
When tagging a song section, try a short style description and a noun – the
instrument or voice that should be heard.
[Syncopated Bass]

Overloading the metatag can cause the instruction to be ignored, or it might

be sung as part of the lyrics.
[call and response between percussion and bass]

Metatag FAQs:
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Verse and Chorus

Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

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Verse and Chorus
A pattern that works well for Continued songs is to have a verse and chorus
in each clip. The tags are not necessary, the AI will build a song pattern
from the lyrics with or without them.
Verses are usually rhythmic and restrained, while the chorus has more
melody and energy. A chorus is usually the ‘hook’ of the song, when it
repeats it makes the song feel intentional and emotional.
Chirp’s AI-generated lyrics often use 1 verse and 1 chorus per clip.
[Verse]

[Chorus]

Add descriptive Style Words to metatags to guide how the lyrics should be
sung.
[Sad Verse]
[Happy Chorus]

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[Rapped Verse]
[Powerpop Chorus]

Lyrics are Stronger than Metatags

Metatags can ‘nudge’ the AI within the lyrics, but the lyric-structure, the
current song pattern, and the Style Prompt, are stronger influences than the
tags.
Even when they work, they don’t always work. When they do work, it can
still feel like a casino.
A fast rap song needs more words per line than a slow ballad.
Verse and Chorus need different syllable-per-line counts and phrasing, or
they will sound the same and blur together.
It’s possible to have a song that’s just verses, when all the lyrics follow the
same pattern and rhyme scheme.
Verse and Chorus
Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

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Pre-chorus and Bridge
Pre-chorus and bridge are for stray lyrics outside the main pattern. They
build anticipation as the song transitions, and often don’t rhyme or appear
to fit the meter.
[Pre-Chorus]
[Bridge]

AI-generated lyrics sometimes include a pre-chorus without labeling it,

causing Chirp to sing it as an awkward extra line that doesn’t fit the meter.
Adding a metatag label tells Chirp this break in the song pattern is
intentional, and it should be sung as its own pattern.
Lyrics generated by AI

[Verse]
Cruisin’ down the streets with nowhere to go
Miles of cars, it’s a never-ending show
Round and round, it’s like a crazy maze
Every parking space, a mirage, a haze
Anxiety’s building, it’s drivin’ me insane
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[Chorus]
Driving in circles, looking for a spot
I’m runnin’ out of gas, I’m losing all my shots
Edited to add a [Pre-chorus]

[Verse]
Cruisin’ down the streets with nowhere to go
Miles of cars, it’s a never-ending show
Round and round, it’s like a crazy maze
Every parking space, a mirage, a haze
[Pre-chorus]
Anxiety’s building, it’s drivin’ me insane
[Chorus]
Driving in circles, looking for a spot
I’m runnin’ out of gas, I’m losing all my shots
Pre-chorus is a lead-in to a chorus. A bridge can go anywhere. It
may be enough to simply set apart the lyrics with any descriptive
tag:
[Shout]
[Whimsical]
[Melancholy]

Verse and Chorus

Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

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Song Structure Tags
There are other parts to a song than just the verse/chorus pattern.
We can influence the song structure with metatags, although the ai tends to
have a mind of its own and follow it’s own pattern.
[Intro]

This one is notoriously unreliable. It’s probably better to describe it like an

instrumental break.
[Short Instrumental Intro]

[Hook]

A hook is a repetitive phrase or instrumental. Try repeating a short line 2 – 4

times with or without the label.
[Catchy Hook]

[Break]
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A break is a few bars of the song where the lead instruments or singer go
silent, and the accompanying instruments play. A [Break] can sometimes be
used strategically to interrupt the current pattern.
[Break]
[Percussion Break]

[Interlude]

Interlude is a useful tag to create an instrumental section within the lyrics.

[melodic interlude]

[Outro]

An Outro can help to prime the song to end, and may create a loop to fade
out in post edit.
Refrain seems to get more ‘creative’ when wrapping up the end of the song,
while Big Finish may change the melody or tempo to create a climax.
[Outro]
[Refrain]
[Big Finish]

[End]

An end tag in the lyrics may work best alone as its own clip. Clear the Style
Prompt, or add ‘End’ to the style description.
[End]
[Fade Out]
[Fade to End]

See: How do I end the song?

As always, prompting an AI is not like paying someone to edit your music on
Fiverr. The reliability of these tags can be influenced by the lyrics, the song
cycle, and the AI just being random.
Verse and Chorus
Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
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Instrumental Tags
Songs can have instrumental sections which can be prompted the same as
[Verse] and [Chorus], but without lyrics the landmarks aren’t as clear.

An instrumental ‘break’ can replace a verse standing as its own section, or

might be a short bridge in the music. These seem to work best when only
one is used at a time, but adding commas inside the prompt may work.
Experiment!
Prompt examples include:
[Break]
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Melodic Bass]
[Percussion Break]
[Syncopated Bass]
[Fingerstyle Guitar Solo]
[Build]
[Bass Drop]

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Stay in the genre

The genre is important! You may need to describe the instrument within the
Style Prompt if you want to manipulate it with metatags.
A [Bass Drop] is a common feature of EDM-genre, but it makes no sense in
an acoustic guitar solo.
A [Bluegrass Banjo Interlude] will be easier to conjure within a Country-
genre song, but might not work at all within an Orchestral Symphony….
Then again, it might work if a ‘banjo’ is added to the style prompt.
Experiment with ‘instrumental lyrics’
Suno will sometimes respond to un-singable text as a musical instrument. a
few lines of punctuation-only might help to force a short instrumental solo.
Less reliable, and sometimes hilarious, try onomatopoeic words that mimic
the sounds of the musical instruments. Often they are sung as lyrics, but
sometimes trigger the intended instrument.
[Percussion Break]
. .! .. .!
!! ... ! ! !

[sad trombone]
waah-Waaah-WAAH
[chugging guitar]
chuka-chuka-chuka-chuka
Verse and Chorus
Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

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Voice Tags
A singing voice is generated randomly for each song, but we can influence
the voice in both the style prompt and in lyrics prompts.
Genre
The Style and Lyrics prompt will influence the type of voice chosen for your
song:
HipHop may default to an urban male
Country will often sing with a western accent
Jazz may feature a soulful female vocal
Pop vocals are often female
Language
Chirp can sing natively in many languages, even switching languages inside
the lyrics. No special prompt is needed, the language is auto-detected.
Gender
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Voice and gender can be described within the Style/Genre Prompt,

although it is not always reliable:
sultry male singer
female narrator
bass male vocal
Singing Style
Some known style-words to try, both in the style description and as lyric
prompts:
Gregorian chant
Melismatic
Narration
Spoken Word
Sprechgesang
Emotional
Sultry
Resonant
Ethereal
Lounge Singer
Vocaloid
Metatags
Style vocals can be used as song-section metatags
[Female Narrator]
[Diva Solo]
[Gospel Choir]
[Primal Scream]
[Rap Verse]

Limitations
Suno doesn’t reveal details about how Chirp creates it’s voices. Some
observed limitations include:
child voices hard to prompt for (so far…)
many languages have native-accents, but not all
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Verse and Chorus
Pre-chorus and Bridge
Song Structure Tags
Instrumental Tags
Voice Tags

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Style and Lyrics
The Custom switch unlocks the advanced mode with 2 prompts.
Style and Lyrics.
Style & Genre List
Prompts for AI Dance Music by mista.lewys
Should my Style Prompt use commas?
How do I make an Instrumental?
Voice Hallucinations
Are Duets Possible?

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Style and Genre List
These v2 tested style-words, genres, sub-genres, and song-types can be
combined to create interesting style prompts, but this list will never be
complete – our list is missing many world genres and regional sounds, not to
mention all the undiscovered style words used in everyday language.
Style
Danceable

Dance
Festive
Groovy
Mid-Tempo
Syncopated
Tipsy
Dark

Atmospheric
C ld
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Dark
Doom
Dramatic
Sinister
Eclectic

Adjunct
Art
Capriccio
Mellifluous
Nü
Progressive
Unusual
Emotion

Anthemic
Emotional
Happy
Jubilant
Melancholy
Sad
Hard

Aggressive
Banger
Power
Stadium
Stomp
Lyrical

Broadway
Cabaret
Lounge
Operatic
Storytelling
Torch-Lounge
Theatrical
Troubadour
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Vegas
Magical

Ethereal
Majestic
Mysterious
Minimal

Ambient
Cinematic
Heat
Minimal
Slow
Sparse
Party

German Schlager
Glam
Glitter
Groovy
Soft

Ambient
Bedroom
Chillwave
Ethereal
Intimate
Heat
Sadcore
Weird

Carnival
Distorted
Glitchy
Haunted
Hollow
Musicbox
Random
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World/Ethnic

Arabian
Bangra
Calypso
Chalga
Egyptian
Hindustani
Hōgaku
Jewish Music
Klezmer
Matsuri
Middle East
Polka
Russian Navy Song
Suomipop
Tribal
Genre
Country

Appalachian
Bluegrass
Country
Folk
Freak Folk
Western
Dance

Afro-Cuban
Dance Pop
Disco
Dubstep
Disco Funk
EDM
Electro
High-NRG
House
Trance
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Downtempo

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Style and Lyrics FAQ:

Style & Genre List
Prompts for AI Dance Music by mista.lewys
Should my Style Prompt use commas?
How do I make an Instrumental?
Voice Hallucinations
Are Duets Possible?

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Should my Style Prompt use
commas?
According to Suno devs, commas used in the Style Prompt will create a
‘balanced’ list where each item has an equal chance of contributing to the
song.
Style Prompts without commas should follow language conventions.
Typically one word modifies another, and style words may work better
changed to description text.
The prompt:
Loud, Rock, Guitars
is different than:
Loud Rock Guitars

But how different? All 3 words are compatible with the genre ‘rock’ – ‘loud’
and ‘guitars’ are so common in rock these words might be unnecessary. You
may get better results with shorter simpler prompts.
Can [metatags] use commas?
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yes, metatags can use commas to make multiple commands within the
same tag, but it’s usually a good idea to keep tags short or they might be
sung aloud.
[soft guitar, male narrator]
Combine commas and descriptions
A typical Style Prompt might combine short descriptions in a comma-
separated list
dreamy shoegaze, pulsing Yamaha bass, raw distorted
guitars, warm synthpads, slow female whisper

For the list to be weighted equally, the prompt needs to include a space
after each comma.
Other punctuation should work similarly to commas.
Style & Genre List
Prompts for AI Dance Music by mista.lewys
Should my Style Prompt use commas?
How do I make an Instrumental?
Voice Hallucinations
Are Duets Possible?

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How do I make an Instrumental?
Suno can add an [Instrumental Break] between lyrics, or can create a
whole song without words or singing. Depending on your genre, you may
need to encourage the AI to sing, or instruct not to sing. Here are some tips
to help.
Switch to Custom Mode
First, choose Custom mode on the Create page to get separate Lyrics and
Style/Genre prompts. The Simple 1-prompt mode is not reliable for creating
instrumentals.
Switch to Instrumental
New in v3, the Instrumental switch deletes any lyrics and closes the Lyric
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The Instrumental switch doesn’t guarantee you won’t hear hallucinations.

Some genres seem to be built around vocals and are more likely to sing
gibberish if no lyrics are provided. Some additional measures might be
switch off Instrumental
add ‘instrumental’ in the style prompt, if necessary
add [Instrumental] to the Lyrics prompt as a metatag, if necessary
I want an instrumental ‘song’ with sections like Verse
and Chorus
Instrumentals can use a verse-chorus song structure without lyrics. Style
metatags can also be added to describe the music or emotional effect.
[Dramatic Verse]

[Melodic Chorus]

We can force space between the sections by adding text that can’t be sung,
like unicode characters:
[Verse]
┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻
┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳┻┳

I want an instrumental break

A [Break] triggers a short pause in the melody, just a few bars where the
bass and percussion play. Try a [Break] to interrupt the singing pattern.
[Break]

An instrument solo is also a kind of Break:

[Bass Drop]
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[Percussion Breakdown]

[Melodic Flute Interlude]

[Guitar solo]

Follow with the chorus or a new verse in the same clip to keep the voice
‘warm’. If the voice is silent for too long, Chirp may ‘forget’ how that voice
should sound, and create a new voice to continue the song.
[Break]

[Melodic Interlude]

[Chorus]

Use Metatags
Without [Verse] and [Chorus], instrumentals still have prompts that are
useful for structuring the song. Some known prompts:
[Break]
[Melodic Instrumental]
[Percussion Break]
[instrument]
[Beat Drop]
[Build]
[Breakdown]
[Beat Drop]

Use sparingly, if needed at all. Simple prompts allow Chirp to be more

creative.
A string of instrumental prompts seems to create conflicts, and often does
nothing at all.
Style & Genre List
Prompts for AI Dance Music by mista.lewys
Should my Style Prompt use commas?
How do I make an Instrumental?
Voice Hallucinations
Are Duets Possible?
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Voice Hallucinations
Chirp will sometimes sing gibberish words. ‘Hallucinations’ happen when the
singing voice goes off the intended lyrics, or when Chirp can’t find the
expected lyrics to continue the song pattern.
We can’t ‘fix’ the lyrics on a clip after it was made, but we can maybe
prevent the same problem happening again on regeneration.
Chirp is spontaneously singing without any lyrics
Instrumentals can usually leave the Lyrics prompt blank, but some lyric-
heavy genres will sing anyway. the solution is to add an ‘instrumental’
metatag to the lyrics text:
[Melodic Instrumental]

It keeps singing anyway!

Some genres like Pop and Gospel are more likely to have songs arranged
around a vocal. Chirp might hallucinate lyrics and a voice, even when you
don’t give it any lyrics.
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As a last resort, try adding instrumental as the song type in the Style/Genre
prompt:
downbeat instrumental rock
low-fi instrumental hiphop
How do I make the song longer?
My words are wrong after Continue
Extend from Time
How do I end the song?
Why can’t I hear my lyrics?

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Are duets possible?
yes and no.
Duets sometimes happen spontaneously, and might continue as long as
both voices are heard near the end of the clip before.
HOWEVER, the Suno voices will be random, and often the wrong gender.
Duets are more of an exploit, definitely not a feature.
Add Duet to the Style Prompt
We can try for a duet in the style prompt:
duet
male and female duet
romantic duet
Some genres may be easier than others. Try ‘Broadway’ or ‘Musical Theater’
– genres where duets are common.
tagging each section
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Metatags within the lyrics might assign multiple voices, but the gender and
consistency are not reliable:
[Mary]
This is my line…
[John]
But now I am singing…
[Mary and John]
There is a chance both of us are singing together…
v3.5 is more responsive to metatags. Using ‘Mr. and Mrs.’ has also worked.
Similarly, rap battles and spoken announcers can be formatted like scripted
dialog.
Rapped Verse
Genre’s can be used as style words, and Suno might create a new voice just
to sing that part – especially if the genre has a favorite gender:
[rapped verse] – typically male
[powerpop chorus] – typically female
Continue from Time
With v3 it’s possible to use Continue From Time to start a new continuation
for each vocal section. The style prompt can be adjusted at each clip.
The odds of getting the desired voice may not be any better, but it may help
to preserve partially-successful clips. Once the duet pattern is established,
Suno may even continue with the duet on its own, at least for a while.
Not very reliable
Duets are not reliable. The voices will swap roles, you might get 2 voices
that are too similar, or the song with the ‘good’ voices is not the best
version.
Creating a duet is fun, but it can also soak your credits.
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