Suno Guide

1. Choose a starting point

Have your own lyrics? Open Create and select Custom, also called Advanced in Suno’s documentation. Put words in Lyrics and describe the sound in Styles. Simple starts from a short description of an idea. [1] [2]

The v6 FAQ lists v6-mini for all users and v6 and v6-wild for Pro and Premier. Suno describes v6 as more predictable and v6-wild as experimental. Check the options available in your creation form. [4]

2. Structure the lyrics and leave room for music

Suno recommends structure tags such as [Verse], [Chorus] and [Bridge] to communicate a song’s arrangement. [2]

Our example has two verses, each followed by a chorus and space for an instrumental. Replace the placeholders with your own words.

[Intro]
[Instrumental]

[Verse 1]
<Your first verse>

[Chorus]
<Your chorus>

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
<Your second verse>

[Chorus]
<Your chorus>

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
[Instrumental]

3. Styles: describe what you want to hear

Suno’s guide recommends describing genre, mood and instruments. You can also specify tempo and vocal character. [2]

A.I.S.C example: rap with violins

Old-school hip-hop, relaxed boom bap groove, warm bass, chopped violin motif, deep male Polish rap vocal, clear diction, spacious phrasing, melodic chorus, instrumental break after each chorus, short intro and outro.

A.I.S.C example: reggae dub

Reggae dub, warm deep bass, offbeat guitar, spacious drums, deep resonant male vocal, uplifting chorus with backing harmonies, restrained dub echoes, instrumental break after each chorus.

These are our examples to test, not official Suno presets. Start with one and adapt it to your song.

Use Exclude in advanced options for unwanted elements. The documentation includes instruments and styles as examples. [5]

4. What the sliders actually mean

Weirdness

A scale from Safe to Chaos. Suno describes 50% as normal. This describes generation behaviour, not a recording’s quality score. [3]

Style Influence

Controls adherence to the style description, from Loose to Strong. [3]

Audio Influence

The documentation confirms an additional slider when using uploaded audio. The Add Vocals documentation describes a related “Audio Strength” control as adjusting adherence to the original instrumental. Check what the control does in the mode you are using. [8] [3]

Variety

The v6 FAQ says it varies results by modifying style prompts. Set it to 0 to retain control of your own style tags. [4]

5. Persona and vocal character

A Persona carries the character of an earlier song, including its vocals and style, into new generations. Suno describes selecting it in Custom and automatically filling the style information. [6]

6. Listen, compare, then refine

Remaster is intended for subtler changes to sound. Cover is for larger transformations, such as changes to the singer, genre or timing. Suno does not describe Remaster as a tool for changing lyrics or radically changing genre. [7]

The A.I.S.C listening checklist

1. Are the words understandable and the important lines intact?
2. Do choruses and instrumental breaks appear where you need them?
3. Does the voice fit the emotion and artistic character?
4. Are there unwanted changes or abrupt cuts in the middle or at the end?
5. What single thing would you improve in the next attempt?

Save the lyrics, Styles, model and settings alongside your chosen version. This is a workflow suggestion, not a guarantee of reproducing an identical generation.

This guide covers creation. Before a commercial release, separately check the current Suno terms and your rights to the source materials.

Added 4 October 2026: further reading

Want to work on narration or refine a mix? Explore these new guides:

• Speech beta: a story with its own soundtrack
• EQ and compression: getting started in Suno Studio