A brief written like a chart
Somebody typed this into the box the way you would hand a song to a session band: title, style, tempo, time signature, key, the voice, the instruments, then chords above the words. It is the most structured brief on any of our pages, and everything in it landed.
The prompt that made it
“FIND OUR WAY HOME Style: Emotional country/pop ballad Tempo: 72 BPM Time: 4/4 Key: G major Vocal: Warm, slightly raspy male vocal; restrained at first, increasingly emotional Instrumentation: Piano, acoustic guitar, subtle electric guitar, bass, drums and strings Intro G – D – Em7 – Cadd9 ×2 Soft piano and finger-picked acoustic guitar. Verse 1 …”
72 BPM, G major, “warm, slightly raspy male vocal; restrained at first, increasingly emotional”, piano and acoustic guitar with strings arriving later — and a 4:32 ballad that follows the plan. The chord symbols are not played as chords; they act as a map of the sections, which is why the shape holds.
You do not have to write like this. But it shows the ceiling: the more of a song you specify, the more of it comes back. What you leave out gets decided for you, and in country the thing people leave out is almost always the tempo.
What country briefs get right, and the one thing they miss
From every request between 4 September and 4 October whose description, style or genre menu named country, Americana or bluegrass:
| In the brief | Share of country briefs | What it means for the song |
|---|---|---|
| A described story rather than pasted lyrics | about 1 in 2 | The generator writes the words; the details you give end up inside them |
| A tempo or pace word | fewer than 1 in 10 | Without it, the pace is the generator's; this is the cheapest fix on this page |
| Made on the free plan | about 3 in 4 | Country is something people try, not something only subscribers make |
| Made with the Instrumental switch on | about 1 in 11 | A backing track to sing over is a real use; the rest come back sung |
Four words fix the gap: slow, mid-tempo, driving, or a number. “Around 76 BPM” gives a ballad; “about 120, two-step feel” gives something a bar dances to.
Say which country you mean
“Country” covers a century and several different bands. Name the one you are hearing and the arrangement follows.
| If you want | Say this | Roughly |
|---|---|---|
| Modern country-pop radio | “country-pop, bright acoustic and electric guitars, big chorus” | 100–130 BPM |
| A honky-tonk bar song | “honky-tonk shuffle, pedal steel, fiddle, walking bass” | a two-step around 120 |
| Outlaw / classic 70s | “outlaw country, warm baritone, telecaster, no polish” | 85–105 BPM |
| A slow porch ballad | “slow country ballad, fingerpicked acoustic, brushed drums, strings late” | 65–80 BPM |
| Bluegrass | “bluegrass string band, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, upright bass, no drums” | fast, 130+ |
Two or three of those words are enough. A full paragraph of adjectives competes with itself; a named instrument set and a pace do not.
Bringing your own words
Switch to Custom mode, paste your verses and chorus, and put the sound in the style line (“outlaw country, pedal steel, warm baritone, 95 BPM”). The tags above the lyrics box — [Verse], [Chorus], [Bridge] — mark the sections, and the chorus goes under [Chorus]. Lines you write are sung as written, in the language you wrote them in.
Chord symbols and stage directions can stay in the text, as the example above shows: they are not played, but they keep your own structure legible while you work. Lyrics taken from an existing song are declined before anything is generated, and the credit comes back.
When it is finished
Both takes stay in your library, and either can be extended, covered in another style, or turned into a video later. Sharing a link is free on every plan; keeping an MP3 costs $1.99 per song on the free plan and is included on Pro and Ultra, which also add lossless WAV, a commercial licence for everything in your library, and stems if you want to sing over the backing yourself.
Before you press Generate
- One specific story: a person, a place, and something that happened.
- Two or three instruments named — pedal steel, fiddle, acoustic, brushed drums.
- A pace word or a BPM number.
- The voice described: warm baritone, bright twang, raspy, restrained.
- The menus under the box do not contradict the sentence.
Sources
Written and fact-checked by the Tunely team · Updated