Suno Sea Shanty Prompt: Style and Exclude Lines

Sea Shanty example: an accordion and tankards on a tavern table by a harbour, ship lanterns, rope and sails outside — Mood still for this style, made with the Lookbook's image prompts. The page has no audio. Scene: an accordion and tankards on a tavern table by a harbour, ship lanterns, rope and sails outside.

What it is

Sailors' 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.

Suno prompt

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

Style

rousing sea shanty, call-and-response male crew chorus with a rough lead singer, foot stomps and hand claps, squeezebox accordion and fiddle, low drone, hearty tavern singalong, 6/8 lilt around 96 bpm

Exclude

drum kit, electric guitar, synth, pop polish, autotune, EDM, trap beat, orchestral trailer score

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 (dotted-quarter pulse)
Meter: 6/8
Swing: straight
Key: D minor
Lead (carries the tune): rough lead singer, crew chorus answers
Colour (never the melody): squeezebox, fiddle
Bed: foot stomps, hand claps, low drone

Not this

Not Celtic battle folk: no drum kit, no rock build. Not a pirate film score: voices first, no orchestra.

Other names

sailor work song, pirate shanty

Pairs with

handheld push through a crowded candlelit tavern
warm smoky low-key grade
a weathered woodtype title

Build a full look around it

The Lookbook deals the camera, light, film look, palette and music that go with this card, and writes one prompt for the whole set.

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