Create your first AI song

You have already made an AI image and video. Now give the same idea a sound

If you have just made your first AI video, this may sound familiar: next, the video needs its own soundscape. Perhaps you have also heard a short AI song online and wondered how it was made. A music generator creates a complete song lasting a few minutes, with or without lyrics, from a single text description. Unlike an image or video prompt, a music prompt also needs a lyrical theme if you want vocals.

Your first song in four steps

1. 1

   Describe the mood and genre

   Describe the mood of the song and its genre, such as calm acoustic music or energetic synthwave. These two words have the greatest influence on the result.

2. 2

   Add a simple lyrical theme

   In the same text, add a brief lyrical theme: what the song is about, or which fictional character it tells a story about. The service writes the lyrics automatically based on the theme. Many music generators, including Suno, also let you write all the lyrics yourself in a separate mode.

3. 3

   Mention the instruments, not the length

   Name one or two main instruments in the text, such as acoustic guitar and piano. You do not choose the length of the song in the prompt text. In most music generators, including Suno, the length is selected in the service settings, either automatically or with a separate length control depending on your account. If needed, you can extend the result later using the service’s own tool.

4. 4

   Listen and assess

   Compare the song with what you imagined: do the mood, tempo and instruments work together? If something is off, change just one thing next time: the style, lyrical theme or instrument.

Try this

Each example shows a different aspect of what a music description controls: mood and genre, specific instruments or the lyrical theme. All three use fictional names and characters and do not ask for the style of a real artist. In music, this is as important a boundary as excluding people and text from images and videos.

A calm instrumental piece about fictional morning mist over a lake, soft piano and a quiet string section, slow tempo, a wistful but warm mood, no lyrics.

An energetic synthwave track about a fictional night-time drive through a neon-lit city, pulsing bass, retro synthesizers, a steady danceable beat, no lyrics.

A warm acoustic song with lyrics about a fictional little corner café and how its aroma greets each morning, a calm tempo, a warm female voice, guitar and light percussion in the background.

A calm instrumental piece about a fictional winter morning in a small village, soft piano and a quiet string section, slow tempo, a wistful but warm mood, no lyrics.

Revise the same song

The same principle applies to music as to images and videos: a single, limited change is the best way to see the effect of that one thing. Request the same subject and mood again, but change only one thing, such as the tempo.

Keep the same subject, mood and instruments as in the previous song. Make the tempo clearly faster and otherwise keep the arrangement the same.

The result is a new version based on the same description, rather than an edit to the old file. Listen to it just as carefully as the first one. If you later want to change just one section, such as the chorus, without recreating the whole song, many services offer a separate editing tool on their paid plans.

When you ask for someone else’s style

Once you know the basics

Next, you can write all the lyrics yourself. Many music generators, such as Suno in Custom mode, let you paste your own lyrics into a separate field instead of using automatic lyrics. The service arranges the music around your lyrics, and the lines you wrote yourself remain your own words.