Pick by the drums, not by the name
Most people arrive here knowing what they want to hear and not what it is called. Read the middle column and follow the row.
| What you are hearing | Write | Go to |
|---|---|---|
| Booming 808s, fast hi-hat rolls, dark melody | “dark trap, heavy 808s, 145 BPM” | Trap beat maker |
| The bass slides between notes; hats stutter | “UK drill, sliding 808s, skittering hi-hats, 140 BPM” | Drill beat maker |
| A cowbell carries the tune; everything is distorted | “Memphis phonk, cowbell melody, distorted 808s, 140 BPM” | Phonk beat maker |
| Hard kick, snappy snare, dusty jazz loop | “90s boom bap, 90 BPM, vinyl crackle, MPC swing” | Boom bap beat maker |
| Warm keys, restrained drums, room for a singer | “slow jam R&B, warm Rhodes, soft kick, 70 BPM” | R&B beat maker |
| Soft piano, tape hiss, nothing demanding attention | “chill lo-fi beat, dusty piano, 75 BPM” | Lofi beat maker |
| Anything you plan to rap sixteen bars over | “hard rap beat, 808 and drums, space for a verse” | Rap beat maker |
| Not sure which decade you mean | “hip hop beat” plus an era word | Hip hop beat maker |
Those eight pages differ in vocabulary, not in machinery. If two rows sound right, take either — the same brief can be pushed toward the other one by changing a word.
Six words, a style with no page of its own, and a finished track
This brief was two short lines. There is no kizomba beat maker on this site, and it did not matter: a style, an instrument and a tempo is a complete request.
The prompt that made it
“estilo kizomba com brass 89 bpm”
“estilo kizomba com brass / 89 bpm” — six words in Portuguese produced 3:17 of wordless music with brass on top, and its sibling take ran 3:28. Whatever you are making, that is the shape of a brief that works.
Which is the real answer to “can it make my genre?”. Name the style, name one instrument, give a number — and if the style has no page here, use any of the eight and put your own words in the box.
The four things every beat brief needs
Whichever page you end up on, a beat brief is these four slots and a switch. Nothing else is required, and more words rarely help.
- A mood word — dark, menacing, warm, playful, melancholy. It decides the melodic instrument more than any other word.
- The drums, named — “heavy 808s and fast hats”, “hard kick and snappy snare”, “restrained, soft kick”. This is the beat itself; leave it out and it is chosen for you.
- One melodic instrument — piano, cowbell, Rhodes, muted guitar, detuned bell. One. A list produces a crowded track.
- A tempo — three in five beat requests here give one, the highest share of any kind of request we measure.
- The Instrumental switch, on. About three in four beat requests never touch it, so the generator writes a lyric and performs it over the beat that was asked for.
What to do with a beat once it exists
One generation returns two beats from the same sentence — two performances to choose between, not a draft and a final. After that: extend a beat that is too short, and the same drums and instrument continue rather than starting over; cover it in another style to hear the same idea as a different decade; put a vocal on it with Add vocals, or upload your own recording and have the track built around it.
On the rights, plainly: there are no per-use royalties on anything made here, but a beat made on the free plan is licensed for personal use. Pro and Ultra add a commercial licence covering every beat in your library — with a certificate and a licence code, including beats made before you upgraded — along with lossless WAV and stems. If you intend to sell a beat or release a song built on one, upgrade before you do, not after.
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