🎸 Suno v3 prompt engineering guide

Go to the app homepage, create tab. There's the simple mode (which will generate a song and lyrics, but without the tricks below), and the custom mode wiht more contorl. We tap the second, of course. Now we see a prompt and lyrics window.

1. Workflow.
First generation is a max of 2 minutes. Usually, it can include an intro, verse, and chorus (maybe more if you have a high tempo). Then, click "continue"; that's about one more minute - another verse and/or chorus.

You can do this in a number of ways. Here is my favourite way:
1. Insert the prompt and all of the lyrics.
2. Hit continue from this track. Cut out all the lyrics that have already been sung and generate again. Optionally, you can move the splice with "continue from" to the end of the previous verse/chorus and/or change the prompt for the new part.
3. Repeat step 2 until you run out of words.
4. Get Whole Song — *click*
5. Sign up for onerpm, generate cover art, insert lyrics and in two weeks your track is on all streaming platforms 🤭

2. The Prompt template.
A combo that works best is:

(Genres), (description of mood/tempo/idea), (some specific instruments, details).

3. Metatags are our bread and butter!
Metatags are the instructions inside [ ] in the lyrics window. They tell suno what to do. Metatags are a field for experimentation, they may or may not work. You can write there anything you can think of.

Here's a couple of ideas.

The standard structure of a pop track looks like this:

You can get by without it, but that way a chunk of the verse won't slide into the chorus.

[Intro]
[Verse 1]
[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]
[Bridge] - can be inserted anywhere, there are also [guitar solo] or [percussion break] options.
[Verse 2]
[Pre-chorus]
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[End] - without it, the track may not even finish.

- singing style
[Soft female singing]
[Hyper-aggressive lead guitar solo] - yeah, yeah, instruments too.
[Epic chorus]
[Rap]

- [instrumental] so that suno doesn't hallucinate the lyrics itself.

- You can try to spell out the part of some instrument, lol

[Percussion Break]
. . ! . . ! . . !    - did you recognize it?

[sad trombone]
waah-Waah-WaAaH.

4. (text)
brackets for backs, choirs and other stuff.

5. Solo Vocals, [Lead Vocalist], etc.
Suno likes dubs and choirs, but the quality and intelligibility of the words will suffer. Highly recommended for use.

6. Emphasis.
Time to remember second grade 😄 All for the sake of controlling pronunciation, intonation, and rhythmic accents.

Here are the symbols to copy and paste:

Á É Í Ó Ó Ú Ú Ý
á é í ó ú ú ý

You might not need them but in certain situations they will help.

7. Getting Inspired.
If you like some song from the top chart, you can continue from any point of it and add your own lyrics.

8. Suno v3 is smarter than you think.
Sometimes it's better to give it more freedom. And sometimes (often) it will straight up ignore your stupid not-so-successful creative ideas.

There you go. Remember, the trial-and-error method led humans to dominance. The same idea can be applied to working with neural networks. You can also learn how to generate nice songs!

Suno's app: https://app.suno.ai/
Here's also a link to a playlist with cherry picks.

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