Agent skill · creative production · nousresearch
songwriting-and-ai-music
Songwriting craft and Suno AI music prompts.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific songwriting techniques and AI music prompt structures that enhance creative output beyond general knowledge.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 226,679 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Songwriting & AI Music Generation Everything here is a GUIDELINE, not a rule. Art breaks rules on purpose. Use what serves the song. Ignore what doesn't. --- 1. Song Structure (Pick One or Invent Your Own) Common skeletons — mix, modify, or throw out as needed: The six building blocks: Intro — set the mood, pull the listener in Verse — the story, the details, the world-building Pre-Chorus — optional tension ramp before the payoff Chorus — the emotional core, the part people remember Bridge — a detour, a shift in perspective or key Outro — the farewell, can echo or subvert the rest You don't need all of these. Some great songs are just one section that evolves. Structure serves the emotion, not the other way around. --- 2. Rhyme, Meter, and Sound RHYME TYPES (from tight to loose): Perfect: lean/mean Family: crate/braid Assonance: had/glass (same vowels, different endings) Consonance: scene/when (different vowels, similar endings) Near/slant: enough to suggest connection without locking it down Mix them. All perfect rhymes can sound like a nursery rhyme. All slant rhymes can sound lazy. The blend is where it lives. INTERNAL RHYME: Rhyming within a line, not just at the ends. "We pruned the lies from bleeding trees / Distilled the storm from entropy" — "lies/flies," "trees/entropy" create internal echoes. METER: The rhythm of stressed vs unstressed syllables. Matching syllable counts between parallel lines helps singability The STRESSED syllables matter more than total count Say it out loud. If you stumble, the meter needs work. Intentionally breaking meter can create emphasis or surprise --- 3. Emotional Arc and Dynamics Think of a song as a journey, not a flat road. ENERGY MAPPING (rough idea, not prescription): Intro: 2-3 Verse: 5-6 Pre-Chorus: 7 Chorus: 8-9 Bridge: varies Final Chorus: 9-10 The most powerful dynamic trick: CONTRAST. Whisper before a scream hits harder than just screaming Sparse before dense. Slow before fast. Low before high. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills nousresearch/songwriting-and-ai-music