Suno AI Prompt Guide: Unleash Your Inner Music Maestro

Introduction

When it comes to music, a creativity block is the biggest enemy. Sometimes, you also have feelings when you have a project to finish and can’t come up with music, or sometimes you can’t figure out where to start. Do not worry, Suno AI is one of the best AI music-generative tools. Suno AI can help you create new songs from scratch or generate instrumental tracks. But every tool has no use if you don’t know how to use it. So this comprehensive Suno AI Prompting guide will help you create better music efficiently. We will provide you with a deep understanding and fresh approach to creating prompts rather than basic tips and tricks.

Understanding Suno AI Prompts: The Building Blocks

Before writing a Suno AI prompt, you have to understand what a prompt is. how it works? A prompt is the text provided to the AI tool to generate music. or in other languages, we can say that prompt is the information we provide to the AI music Generative tool to generate songs for us.

Simple Prompt

Let’s understand how to write a simple Suno AI prompt. writing AI prompt, you are providing an idea of how your song will sound. or if you don’t know how your song should be, you can also use specific story scenarios, moods, and genre styles that work too.

Note: Don’t get too specific with instrumentation or sub-genres. Use Custom Mode instead, which splits the style and lyrics into separate prompts.

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Prompt

a friendship song meeting you old friend after 10 years. an inspiring song from the POV of a Guitar player working who want show his emotions for his friend.

Example: 1. Rekindled Strings and 2. Rekindled Strings

Custom Mode

Now you understand how to write Suno AI Prompt. Let’s dive a little deeper and understand how custom mode can improve your suno ai prompt. for starting custom mode on the toggle switch right beside custom.

You can generate lyrics using the “surprise me” button, or you can use ChatGPT or Bard to generate lyrics for your songs. You can use POV, conflict, and details to make your song more realistic and original. sometimes these AI tools use filtered rhymes but don’t contribute to your song; that’s the reason you have to analyze lyrics for these errors.

Prompt

act as a professional song writer. who have all important knowledge for song writing and having working since 2010 as song writer. now you have to write a song lyrics for me using [brief] and this [song structure].

brief = you are meeting your old friend after 10 years. you are so happy to see him and you are have tears of joy.

song structure = [intro]-[verse1]-[chorus]-[verse 2]-[chorus]-[end]

Example: 1. Reunion of the Heart and 2. Reunion of the Heart

Beyond the Basics: Advanced Prompting Techniques for Suno AI (Meta Tag secret)

You now understand how to use custom mode and create quality Song from suno ai. let me provide some extra methods to fine-tune your suno ai prompt. this method is using Meta tags. Meta tags are structure provided to your songs. many types of meta tags can elevate your suno ai prompt.You have to keep in mind that it is not a holly grail for suno ai prompt but try-error will make your suno ai prompt better.

Note: Make sure to use 3-word meta tags too many meta tags will be ignored

1. Verse and Chorus

You can use Verse and Chorus as meta tags; simply put it in “[],” and this is the meta tag for Suno. You also can use descriptive-style words to meta tags to guide how lyrics should be sung. for example, [sad verse], [happy chorus].

You can also use musical terms to influence the genre for example [rapped verse], [powerpop chorus]

2. Pre-chorus and Bridge

Pre-chorus and bridge are mainly used in between verse and chorus. There are purpose of the song is to connect verse and chorus. you can also use the meta tags [shout], [whimsical], [melancholy].

3. Song Structure tags

[intro] [short instrumental intro], [hook], [break], [Percussion break], [interlude], [melodic interlude] are some examples of song structure.

• intro: Songs starting music part known as an intro.
• Hook: Hooks are designed to catch listeners’ attention. The hook and chorus are not the same thing in songs.
• Break: Break is a section where the main melody stops for a moment and starts again. showing surprising and new elements to the song.
• interlude: An interlude is a short music piece that is used to transition between the main parts of the song. Interludes are mainly instrumental but they can be vocals also. The purpose of an interlude includes transitions, mood shifts, narrative elements, and even sound effects for the scene setting.

4. Outros & Endings

outros tags are tags to define the ending of the song these tags are not 100% accurate but this works well. These are some example

• [outros]
• [Refrain]
• [big finish]
• [end]
• [fade out]
• [fade to end]

5. Instrumental tags

Instrumental tags are the tags that generate instrumental music in between songs. you have to keep in mind that the genre of the song according to that you can use these meta tags. for example [beat drop] is one of the common meta tags in the EDM genre you can not use this tag in an acoustic guitar song. but keep in mind there are no rules you can’t use in this genre or you can use in this genre try it out feel free to be creative.

• [instrumental interlude]
• [melodic bass]
• [percussion bass]
• [syncopated bass]
• [fingerstyle guitar solo]
• [build]
• [bass drop]

6. Style vocal tags

Style vocal tags are tags that you can use in both the lyrics and style section. again I am stressing this out this is not yet perfect so you have to work on a lot of tries and errors. These are some style voccal example gregorian chant, melismatic, narration, spokenword, emotional, sultry etc.

meta tags exaple:

• [female narrator]
• [diva solo]
• [gospel choir]
• [prime scream]
• [rap verse]

Helpful Souce for Suno AI

• Complete List of Prompts & Styles for Suno AI Music (2024)
• Suno AI subReddit
• Suno Wik

Alternative for Suno AI

• SoundRAW
• Musicfy AI
• Mubert