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Getting started with Suno prompts
Start here if you have opened the app, typed something hopeful into the style box and got back a song that was almost right. This hub sets out the smallest useful path: what the fields do, how a style line is built, and which tools save you the most time on day one.
First four lessons
Do these in order — each one takes a few minutes and the next assumes the last.
What a prompt actually does
Where the style field ends and the lyrics box begins, and what each one controls.
Anatomy of a style line
The handful of slots every solid style line fills, in the order that reads cleanly.
Improving a weak prompt
Take a vague one-liner and rewrite it into something the model can act on.
Building from a song brief
Turn a plain-language brief into a complete, ordered style line.
Find a sound to aim at
A prompt is easier to write when you know what you are trying to hit.
Recognising genres by ear
Train yourself to name what you hear before you try to describe it.
Pop
The default hook-first template, and how to make it sound like a decision.
Folk & acoustic
Wood, strings and room sound, with arrangements that stay out of the singer's way.
Style library
Hundreds of ready style lines you can copy, run and then pull apart.