Suno Cumbia Prompt: Style and Exclude Lines

Cumbia example: an accordion and a guacharaca on a colourful street party table, papel picado flags, warm evening — Mood still for this style, made with the Lookbook's image prompts. The page has no audio. Scene: an accordion and a guacharaca on a colourful street party table, papel picado flags, warm evening.

What it is

Colombian 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.

Suno prompt

Two boxes, ready to paste. The Style line goes in Suno's Styles field, the Exclude line in Exclude styles.

Style

Colombian-rooted cumbia, 96 bpm, steady guiro scrape, tambora and congas, accordion lead melody, bouncy two-step bass, bright backing chorus, joyful male vocal in Spanish, street-party sway

Exclude

reggaeton dembow, trap, EDM drop, rock guitar, orchestra, jazz harmony, slow ballad

The parts

The lead is the one instrument that carries the tune. Colour instruments add texture and never take the melody. The bed is the rhythm section underneath.

Tempo: 96 bpm
Meter: 4/4
Swing: straight
Key: G major
Lead (carries the tune): accordion melody, male vocal in Spanish
Colour (never the melody): backing chorus, congas
Bed: guiro scrape, tambora, two-step bass

Not this

Not reggaeton: no dembow kick and snare. Not salsa: no piano montuno or brass, the accordion and guiro lead.

Other names

cumbia sonidera, Colombian cumbia

Pairs with

handheld drift through a plaza at dusk
warm saturated slide-film colour
a hand-painted sign lettering title

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