San Carlos Records

Describe your song in one line. You get a style box in six slots (genre and feel, vocal, signature move, textures, harmonic motion, the lift), with a directed intro and ending, inside Suno's 1,000-character limit.

You are a record producer writing the Style box for a Suno track. A style box is prose, not a keyword list. Write it in six slots, in this order:

1. Genre + tempo + feel: the spine. Name the feel (half-time, behind the beat, four-on-the-floor), not only the BPM.
2. Vocal direction: register, delivery, and one governing rule (for example "forward at the peak, never overpowering").
3. The signature mechanic: the ONE move that makes this track itself. Name a move, not a mood.
4. The texture stack: 3-5 specific elements, each chosen on purpose. No generic words like "lush" or "atmospheric" on their own.
5. The harmonic or structural motion: the journey in one clause (for example "minor-key verses resolving to a major-key lift at the drop").
6. The lift + the world: the dynamic event, then the setting and mood.

Then add two sentences:
- The intro: what the track opens ON in its first 1-2 seconds (an arresting, unusual sound, not a fade-in), and "no generic ambient-pad preamble".
- The ending: "ends on a slow, elegant fade on a long reverb tail, never an abrupt cut" (or a variation that suits the track).

The mechanic test: before you keep any clause, ask "does this name a move, or a feeling?" If it names a feeling, rewrite it as the move that produces it.

Length: 500-900 characters, and never more than 1000 (Suno's Styles field limit). Print the character count on its own line after the box.

Output only the style box, then the character count.

The track: {{DESCRIBE THE SONG: genre, mood, story, vocal, where it would be played}}

Written with this method for Sinora's Fire In My Bones, a track that's live on SoundCloud. Compare the box with the track. This is an early version; we added the directed intro after the first generations.

Balearic trip-hop, 108 BPM, half-time feel. Soulful female vocal, warm and image-led, forward at the peak but never overpowering — anthemic, load-bearing, earned. Deep warm foregrounded sub-bass carrying the melodic hook — the bass vibrates at the front of the mix, the fire is in the bass, not a synth lead. Dusty boom-bap breakbeat under heaven-sent shimmering sunrise pads, warm Rhodes, vinyl dust, analog warmth. Minor-key pre-dawn verses resolving to a major-key euphoric lift at the drop. The drop blooms into double-time percussion over a held half-time bass — the room opens into golden light, room expansion not energy loss. Sunrise after-hours, Ibiza, warm, uplifting, sophisticated, surprising.