Guitars
Every guitar prompt in the glossary, clean to crushing. Every prompt stands alone: paste it into the Styles field as-is, or combine it with elements from other songs. The song name links to the full blueprint, where you will find what is actually making the sound and how the whole production fits together. Slider settings and standard excludes live on the glossary landing page.
Getting specific effects
The vocabulary that tends to steer Suno toward classic guitar effects. These describe what the effect sounds like rather than naming gear, which is how Suno listens. Treat every phrase as a starting point, drop it into a fuller prompt, and expect to adjust by ear.
Fuzz
Distortion pushed past aggression into texture: thick, woolly, and slightly broken, like the amp is melting pleasantly.
thick woolly fuzz guitar, saturated and splattery, vintage broken amp textureDistinct from ordinary distortion, which reads cleaner and more modern. Say fuzz when you want the hair.
Overdrive & crunch
The friendly middle of the gain range: warm, gritty, and dynamic, breaking up harder when the playing digs in.
warm crunchy overdriven guitar, gritty amp breakup, dynamic and responsiveChorus
A watery, shimmering doubling, as if two slightly detuned guitars are playing the same part. The signature clean tone of the 80s.
clean chorused guitar, watery shimmering detuned doubling, glassy 80s sheenAlready load-bearing across the dream-pop and new-wave blueprints; pairs naturally with plate reverb.
Tremolo
The volume pulsing in a steady rhythm, from a slow underwater throb to a fast flutter.
tremolo guitar with a steady pulsing volume throb, vintage wobbling shimmerWah
A vowel-like sweep across the tone, from muffled to biting, usually rocked in rhythm with the part.
funky wah guitar, rhythmic vowel like filter sweeps, expressive crying toneSteers best inside funk and psychedelic language; on its own it can come back subtle.
Slapback echo
One single fast repeat right behind the note, tight enough to thicken rather than echo. The rockabilly and early rock-and-roll sound.
clean guitar with tight slapback echo, single fast repeat, vintage rock and roll snapLong echoing delay
Repeats that trail off in rhythm, turning single notes into cascading patterns and filling the space behind the band.
atmospheric guitar with long rhythmic echoing delays, cascading repeats trailing into reverbSpring reverb
A boingy, splashy metallic reverb, drippy on staccato notes. The surf-guitar signature.
twangy guitar drenched in splashy spring reverb, drippy wet surf toneFeedback & sustain
Notes that bloom instead of dying, tipping over into controlled singing feedback at the edges.
sustained singing lead guitar with blooming controlled feedback, notes that swell and holdJangle & chime
Bright, ringing, bell-like strums with the high strings shimmering, as if every chord has extra octaves in it.
bright jangly chiming guitar, ringing bell like strums with shimmering high stringsThe twelve-string sound in spirit; the indie-rock genre page builds a whole variant on it.
From the song blueprints
Every guitars prompt in the glossary, each modeled on a classic record.
The Adventure · Angels & Airwaves
Chiming electrics through long rhythmic delay, layered echoes accumulating into huge anthemic walls.
Spacey chiming electric guitars with long rhythmic delay, atmospheric layered echoes building into huge anthemic walls.Dark fingerpicked acoustics with a gothic chill, plus twinkling clean electric accents at the edges.
Dark fingerpicked acoustic guitars, gentle and gothic, with twinkling clean electric guitar accents.Buzzsaw downstroked power chords, tight and compressed, loud and in your face from first second to last.
Buzzsaw punk rock guitars, relentless downstroked power chords with a tight compressed crunch, loud and in your face.Fix You · Coldplay (Guitar)
The liftoff: a bright chiming delayed electric pattern entering midway and cascading upward into the climax.
Chiming delayed electric guitar entering midway, a bright cascading picked pattern lifting the arrangement into a soaring climax.The featured element: two interlocking jangly clean parts with a bright chorused sheen, bouncy and intricate, mixed high.
Jangly sparkling clean electric guitars, two interlocking picked parts with a bright chorused sheen, bouncy and intricate, high in the mix.Seven Nation Army · The White Stripes (Octave guitar & slide)
The signature: an electric guitar pitched an octave down into a fat menacing fuzz that functions as the bassline, plus a raw screaming slide solo.
Fuzzy octave down electric guitar riff functioning as a fat menacing bassline, plus a raw screaming slide guitar solo with heavy distortion.Billie Jean · Michael Jackson (Rhythm guitar)
Clean single-note funk licks used sparingly, more punctuation than rhythm bed. Muted, percussive, and precise.
Clean tight funk rhythm guitar, muted percussive single note licks, dry and precise, used sparingly as accents.Enjoy the Silence · Depeche Mode (Lead guitar)
A clean, glassy electric guitar with light chorus and delay, playing smooth sustained single-note lines. It is the humanizing element against the synth backdrop.
Clean glassy electric guitar with light chorus and delay, playing smooth sustained single note lines floating above the synths.Every Breath You Take · The Police (Arpeggio guitar)
The signature: a glassy clean electric with lush chorus, fingerpicking a precise arpeggio pattern. Chorus is what gives it that watery shimmer and width.
Glassy clean electric guitar with a lush chorus effect, playing a hypnotic precise fingerpicked arpeggio pattern, bright with short subtle ambience.When Doves Cry · Prince (Lead guitar)
Raw, expressive electric bursts with light fuzz, flashy and untamed, used as dramatic accents rather than a constant rhythm bed.
Raw expressive electric guitar bursts with light fuzz, flashy and untamed, used as dramatic accents rather than constant rhythm.Invisible Touch · Genesis (Guitar)
Chiming clean electric accents mixed level with the synths, adding rhythm and sparkle rather than leading.
Chiming clean electric guitar accents, bright and rhythmic, blended evenly with the synths.Human Nature · Michael Jackson (Clean guitar)
The featured element. Liquid, glassy, pristine clean electric with gentle chorus, playing delicate single-note figures and soft harmonics. The cleanliness and restraint are what make it glow.
Liquid glassy clean electric guitar with gentle chorus, playing delicate single note figures and soft harmonics, intimate and pristine.Two jobs: a tight, palm-muted distorted rhythm chugging with the groove, and a flashy screaming lead full of dive bombs and fast runs. Both are polished hard rock, not garage grit.
Hard edged distorted rock rhythm guitar with tight palm muted chugs and stabbing power chords, plus a flashy screaming lead guitar with dive bombs and fast runs.Born in the U.S.A. · Bruce Springsteen (Rhythm guitar)
Raw, jangling, slightly loose electric rhythm, mixed under the synth and drums where its grit adds body rather than focus.
Raw jangling electric rhythm guitar, gritty and loose, sitting slightly under the synth and drums.Smells Like Teen Spirit · Nirvana
Two modes: quiet muted clean picking in the verses, and a massive scooped fuzz wall of sludgy power chords in the choruses. The contrast is the sound.
Quiet muted clean electric guitar in the verses exploding into a massive scooped fuzz distortion wall of thick sludgy grunge power chords in the choruses.Wonderwall · Oasis (Acoustic wall)
Layered strummed acoustics compressed into a dense, warm, midrange-heavy wall. Acoustic instruments with electric attitude.
Dense wall of layered strummed acoustic guitars, thick and driving, compressed into a warm midrange heavy bed.The signature: clean guitars with a queasy rotating warble, unsettling and dreamlike, erupting into massive downtuned sludge distortion.
Queasy warbling clean electric guitars with a seasick rotating modulation, dreamlike and unsettling, erupting into massive downtuned sludge distortion.Fuzz used for warmth, not aggression: soft, blurred, layered into dreamy gauze with subtle sliding textures.
Hazy warm fuzz guitars, soft and blurred rather than aggressive, layered into a dreamy gauze with subtle sliding textures.Somber clean arpeggios interrupted by sudden dead-string crunch stabs of heavy distortion, then a roaring chorus wall. The stabs are the signature.
Clean somber electric guitar arpeggios interrupted by sudden percussive dead string crunch stabs of heavy distortion, exploding into a roaring wall in the chorus.Bitter Sweet Symphony · The Verve
Hazy strummed washes buried in ambience at the back of the mix.
Hazy strummed guitars washed in ambience, buried in the back of the mix.Clean skank upstrokes on the offbeats, bright and choppy, with a smooth bluesy lead break.
Clean skanking reggae guitar upstrokes on the offbeats, bright and choppy, with a smooth bluesy lead break.Slow droning fuzz power chords, thick and relentless, with clean chiming arpeggios in the quiet sections.
Grinding heavy fuzz guitars playing slow droning power chords, thick and relentless, with clean chiming arpeggios in the quiet sections.Black or White · Michael Jackson (Guitar)
A crunchy, bright, playful riff with palm-muted drive. Rock crunch delivered with pop bounce.
Crunchy upbeat rock rhythm guitar riffing, bright palm muted drive, punchy and playful.Semi-Charmed Life · Third Eye Blind
Bright chugging power pop crunch: palm-muted punch in the verses, big shiny open chords in the choruses.
Bright chugging power pop rock guitars, crunchy and buoyant, punchy palm muted verses opening into big shiny chords.The signature: acoustic guitar in an open tuning, droning sympathetic ringing strings under gentle picked patterns, joined by soft ambient electric swells.
Shimmering ringing acoustic guitar in an open tuning with droning sympathetic strings and gentle picked patterns, joined by soft ambient electric guitar swells.What Would You Say · Dave Matthews Band (Acoustic guitar)
Acoustic played as percussion: tight syncopated strumming with muted string slaps, funky and bright.
Percussive funky acoustic guitar, tight syncopated strumming with muted string slaps, bright and rhythmic.Taylor · Jack Johnson (Acoustic guitar)
Warm, close-miked, and softly fingerpicked with muted percussive slaps supplying a gentle internal groove.
Warm mellow acoustic guitar, softly fingerpicked with muted percussive slaps, relaxed and close miked.Never Going Back Again · Fleetwood Mac (Acoustic guitars)
The whole show: rapid, intricate Travis picking, thumb holding a constant alternating pulse under rolling fingerpicked patterns, two layered parts weaving together.
Intricate rapid Travis picked acoustic guitars, bright and precise, two layered fingerstyle parts weaving constant rolling patterns.Where the Streets Have No Name · U2 (Delay guitar)
The famous sound: clean, chiming, rapid picking through a rhythmic dotted-eighth delay that turns single notes into a cascading self-generating pattern.
Shimmering clean electric guitar with rapid rhythmic echoing delay, chiming picked notes bouncing back between the beats into a self generating cascade, bright and atmospheric.Comfortably Numb · Pink Floyd (Lead guitar)
Smooth, singing overdrive with endless sustain and slow expressive bends. The tone phrases like a voice, which is why people describe it as the guitar singing.
Singing sustained electric lead guitar with smooth overdrive and endless sustain, expressive slow bends with a vocal quality, soaring over a massive dark backdrop.Sultans of Swing · Dire Straits (Lead guitar)
Fingerpicked clean electric with a bright, hollow, quacking single coil tone. Nimble, articulate, and nearly effect-free; the fingers do everything.
Dry articulate fingerpicked clean electric guitar with a bright quacking single coil tone, nimble precise licks with no distortion and barely any effects, upfront in the mix.The famous combination: warm layered twelve-string acoustic strumming plus twin electric leads playing intertwined harmonized lines with smooth sustain.
Layered warm twelve string acoustic guitars strumming steadily, joined by twin electric lead guitars playing intertwined harmonized lines with smooth singing sustain.Sweet Child O' Mine · Guns N' Roses
A bright saturated lead with a singing overdriven tone and wide expressive vibrato, over crunchy hard rock rhythm guitar. The lead tone is sweet and screaming at once.
Bright saturated electric lead guitar with a singing overdriven tone and wide expressive vibrato, screaming high bends, over crunchy hard rock rhythm guitar.Clean shimmering textures with soft chorus, gently picked, floating at the edges of the stereo field.
Clean shimmering electric guitar textures with soft chorus, gently picked patterns floating in the stereo field.Baba O'Riley · The Who (Guitar)
Big crunchy power chords slashed in wide open strokes. Raw and physical rather than precise.
Big crunchy power chord electric guitar, raw and open, slashing in wide strokes.When the Levee Breaks · Led Zeppelin (Guitar)
Heavy, droning, hypnotic riffing with thick fuzzy sustain. Trudging and relentless rather than flashy.
Heavy droning blues rock electric guitar with thick fuzzy sustain, slow hypnotic relentless riffing.Gritty, bluesy, and tightly riffed with a dark polished crunch, opening into big sustained chords at the climaxes.
Gritty bluesy hard rock guitars, tight riffing with a dark polished crunch, opening into big sustained chords.Bad · U2 (Delay guitar)
A chiming clean electric with rhythmic delay, cycling one shimmering picked pattern that builds through repetition and accumulation.
Chiming clean electric guitar with rhythmic delay, a cyclical shimmering picked pattern, atmospheric hypnotic and building.With or Without You · U2 (Sustain guitar)
Electric swells with seemingly infinite smooth sustain, ambient and violin like, drifting over the pulse rather than riffing.
Sustained singing electric guitar swells with endless smooth sustain, ambient and violin like, drifting over the arrangement.Tight palm-muted riffing with a scooped, saturated crunch, doubled and panned wide for mass, plus a screaming wah-drenched lead.
Massive tight palm muted metal rhythm guitars with a scooped saturated crunch, precise chugging riffs doubled wide, plus a screaming wah drenched lead guitar.Le Freak · Chic (Rhythm guitar)
The famous scratch: clean, choppy, sixteenth-note chucking, metronomically tight and crisp. Rhythm guitar as percussion.
Tight scratchy funk rhythm guitar, clean choppy sixteenth note chucking, crisp and metronomic.September · Earth, Wind & Fire (Guitar)
Clean chiming funk chucking with sweet high riffs slipped between the beats.
Clean chiming funk rhythm guitar, tight chucking with sweet high riffs.My Girl · The Temptations (Guitar)
Sweet, clean, gently rising picked figures placed between the vocal phrases.
Sweet clean electric guitar figures, gentle rising picked riffs between the phrases.Stayin' Alive · Bee Gees (Guitar)
Choppy clean chucking interlocked with the bass, tight and funky.
Choppy clean disco rhythm guitar, tight funky chucking.Uptown Funk · Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars (Guitar)
Dry scratchy chucking, tight and percussive, pure rhythm engine.
Dry scratchy funk rhythm guitar chucking, tight and percussive.Mo Money Mo Problems · The Notorious B.I.G. (Guitar)
Bright clean disco funk chucking, glossy and rhythmic.
Bright clean disco funk guitar chucking, glossy and rhythmic.Rolling in the Deep · Adele (Acoustic guitar)
Dark, muted, urgent chugging that drives the verses with coiled tension.
Dark muted acoustic guitar chugging urgently, tense and coiled.Get Lucky · Daft Punk (Rhythm guitar)
The heartbeat: crisp, clean disco funk chucking in silky sixteenths, immaculate and hypnotic.
Crisp clean disco funk rhythm guitar, silky chucking sixteenth notes, immaculate and hypnotic.The signature motion: shimmering clean eighth note chug with a glossy sheen, blooming into bright overdriven chords in the chorus.
Shimmering clean electric guitar chugging steady eighth notes with a glossy sheen, blooming into bright overdriven chords in the chorus.Something Just Like This · The Chainsmokers & Coldplay (Guitar)
The band half: gentle chiming electric arpeggios opening the record, warm and hopeful.
Gentle chiming electric guitar arpeggios, warm and hopeful, opening the arrangement.