Suno Music Style Prompts: Style and Exclude Lines for 25 Genres

Copy-ready Suno style lines for 25 genres, each with tempo, key, who carries the tune, and an Exclude line that keeps the track from drifting.

Each page gives the Style line and the Exclude line as two boxes, plus tempo, key and the instrument that carries the tune.

• Phonk2020s car-edit music grown from Memphis rap tapes: a looping distorted cowbell melody, blown-out 808 bass, rattling trap hats and a hard clap.
• Amapiano2010s South African house offshoot: a slow, rolling groove built on a deep sliding log drum bass, airy shakers, jazzy keyboard chords and chant-like vocal ad-libs.
• City Pop1980s Japanese pop for a boom-era city at night: slap bass, funky cutting guitar, electric piano and brass stabs, polished like a car stereo demo.
• SynthwaveA 2010s revival of 80s film and arcade synth music: gated-reverb snare, pulsing arpeggiated analog bass, wide polysynth pads and a bright lead.
• Drum and BassFast UK breakbeat music near 174 bpm: chopped breaks or a two-step kick and snare over rolling sub bass. The liquid style adds soft pads and keys.
• TrapAtlanta rap beat from the 2000s on: long booming 808 bass, rapid hi-hat rolls and a snare-clap on beat three in half-time, under a dark bell or synth melody.
• Deep HouseSoulful, slower house music: a warm four-on-the-floor kick, shuffled hats and a round bassline under jazzy minor-seventh chords and short vocal snippets.
• UK Drill2010s London rap beat at a half-time 140s tempo: gliding 808 bass that bends between notes, skippy hi-hats and snares that land late, under dark minor piano or choir stabs.
• Dubstep2000s UK bass music at 140 in half-time, later made louder: a huge snare on beat three, sub drops and growling, wobbling synth bass that takes over at the drop.
• ShoegazeEarly-90s guitar rock buried in its own noise: layers of reverb-soaked, pitch-bending fuzz guitars, buried breathy vocals and steady drums underneath.
• Hyperpop2010s internet pop pushed to the limit: pitched-up autotuned vocals, blown-out bass, sugary chords and sudden glitch edits that jump between styles.
• ReggaetonPuerto Rican club music built on the dembow rhythm: a kick on every beat with a snare pattern that skips in threes, deep sub bass and a smooth Spanish vocal.
• UK GarageLate-90s London club music: a shuffled two-step beat that skips the kick on beat three, rubbery sub bass, chopped organ stabs and warm electric piano.
• Heavy Metal1980s classic metal: galloping palm-muted riffs, twin guitars in harmony, double bass drum runs and a high, wailing voice built for arenas.
• Sea ShantySailors' work song: a lead singer calls a line and the crew roars back, kept in time by stomps and claps, with squeezebox and fiddle if anything at all.
• Lo-fi Hip HopSlow dusty beats for studying: a lazy swung kick and snare, a looped electric piano in minor ninth chords, soft sub bass, vinyl crackle and tape wobble.
• Afrobeat1970s West African fusion of highlife, funk and jazz: long hypnotic grooves of interlocking guitars, a unison horn section, busy drums and shekere.
• Bossa NovaLate-1950s Brazilian blend of samba rhythm and cool jazz harmony, felt in a slow two: soft nylon guitar comping, a rim-click clave and brushes.
• Gospel ChoirAfrican American church music: a full choir answering a lead singer, organ and piano trading chords, tambourine and hand claps, swaying in a 12/8 feel.
• CumbiaColombian coastal dance music that spread across Latin America: a scraping guiro, hand drums and a two-step bass under an accordion melody, steady and swaying.
• Jersey Club2000s New Jersey dance music at 140: a kick pattern that stutters into quick triple hits, chopped vocal loops, sample squeaks and short chant hooks made for dance moves.
• GrungeEarly-1990s Pacific Northwest rock: sludgy detuned guitars, quiet verses that explode into loud choruses, heavy drums and a raspy, anguished voice.
• Vocal TranceEarly-2000s club anthem: long builds into big releases, a breathy female vocal floating over rolling offbeat bass, supersaw chords and a four-on-the-floor kick.
• Dark AmbientLow rumbling drones, detuned dissonant strings, metal scrapes and distant thuds. Nothing resolves; the quiet does the scaring.
• Music BoxA comb of tuned steel teeth plucked by a turning cylinder: high, bell-like, a little out of tune, slowing as the spring runs down. Usually in waltz time.