Short answer: Say how the song starts in both places Suno reads. In Styles, give the intro a bar count and name the part that plays on the first downbeat. In the lyrics, repeat that as a cue on the [Intro] header, and finish with an [End | …] cue plus an ending sentence in Styles. It won't work on every take, so judge two to four before changing anything.
Three complaints keep turning up this month. Every song opens on the same fade-in. The first vocal arrives so late that one reviewer says the song doesn't start for a minute and a half. And the voices may sound better in v6, but half the tracks end on a weird fade or loop the last bar.
These are the same problem from two ends: nobody told the model where the song starts and stops, so it chose.
Why does Suno v6 fade in at the start of every song?
Suno doesn't publish how its models decide this, so what follows is a working guess from using it. A generated track needs an opening. When the prompt says nothing about one, a slow rise is the safe choice, and an atmospheric build is what a lot of modern productions do. A prompt full of mood words ("cinematic", "dreamy", "epic") pulls harder in that direction.
Two habits make it worse:
- No bar count. "Intro" alone leaves the length open.
- A bare header.
[Intro]says a section exists and nothing about how it plays.
How to get a hard start
Fix it in three steps, in this order.
1. Name the first sound in Styles. Write an arrangement sentence that gives the intro a length and says what plays at the top. Use positive words. A "no fade" in Styles is often ignored, and it can pull the idea of a fade into the song.
Indie rock, 124 BPM, driving and warm. Close male lead vocal, plain and forward. Tight live drums with a punchy kick and snare, round electric bass, one jangly lead guitar riff as the hero part. Intro is 4 bars at full band volume, guitar riff on the first downbeat, vocal enters on bar 5. Verse restrained, chorus full voice. Vocal up front, guitar left, drums centre. Ends cold on the last chorus hit with one ringing guitar chord.
2. Say it again in the lyrics. The cue on the header should use the same words as Styles.
[Intro | 4 bars, full band on the downbeat, guitar riff]
[Verse 1 | close and conversational]
First line of your verse here
[Chorus | full voice, hook up front]
Your hook here
[End | cold stop on one ringing guitar chord]
3. Put the leftovers in Exclude. Exclude is the place for what you don't want, in short category words:
fade in, ambient intro, spoken intro, long outro
Then set Variety to 0 and turn My Taste off for the takes you care about, so Suno doesn't rewrite your wording. Check your composer for the current names of those controls, since Suno moves them around.
If you want the vocal in sooner, shorten the intro further or drop the section altogether and open on [Verse 1]. Some genres fight this: club and cinematic styles expect a long build, so ask for it short and expect to trim.
How do you get a clean ending in Suno v6?
The ending needs the same treatment: one line in Styles and one in the lyrics. Be physical about it. "Ends cold on the last chorus hit" gives the model something to do. "Great ending" doesn't.
Four endings that read clearly:
| You want | Styles sentence | Lyric cue |
|---|---|---|
| Hard stop | Ends cold on the last chorus hit. | [End | cold stop] |
| Ring-out | Ends on one held chord that rings out. | [End | one held chord, ring out] |
| Short fade | Ends with a short 4-bar fade on the groove. | [End | short 4-bar fade] |
| Band stops, one part left | Band drops out and solo piano plays the last 2 bars. | [End | solo piano, 2 bars] |
The [End | …] line goes last, with nothing after it. Without it, v6 is more likely to pick for itself, which is how you get a long fade or a third chorus nobody asked for. There's more on this in which v6 meta tags still work.
Length matters as well. A short song has less room to wander, and the song's timing is easy to work out before you spend credits: the song length calculator turns bars and BPM into minutes.
What if the take is good but the start or end is wrong?
Don't throw away a take with a great middle. Try these in order, cheapest first:
- Trim the fade. If the fade-in is only a bar or two, cut it in any audio editor and add a tiny fade of your own.
- Extend from before the ending breaks. Users report better luck extending from a clean spot just before the trouble than from the very end. If it goes wrong at 3:10, try extending from 2:50 and write the
[End | …]cue into that section's lyrics. - Replace the section. Select the last section a beat early and regenerate it with the ending cue. Results vary, and it costs credits.
What doesn't work
- Typing "no fade in" into Styles. Negatives belong in Exclude.
- Stacking the request in capitals, or repeating it five times. One clear sentence does as much.
- A bare
[Outro]or[Fade Out]tag. It names a section and leaves the rest open. - Expecting certainty. v6 varies from take to take. Nothing here guarantees a hard start, and if someone tells you a tag always works, test it on four takes first. What only Suno can fix is the model's own habits, including the audio that gets worse late in long songs, which is a separate problem.
Questions people ask
Can I get rid of the intro completely?
Often, yes. Skip the [Intro] header, open on [Verse 1 | …], and have Styles say the vocal enters on the first downbeat. Expect some takes to add a short lead-in anyway.
Why does my song loop the last bar?
It usually means the model reached the end of your lyrics with time left and no instruction to stop. An [End | …] cue and a matching Styles sentence usually help. So does a song whose sections fit the length you asked for.
How do I stop a Suno song fading out at the end?
Ask for the ending you want instead of the one you don't: one Styles sentence such as "Ends cold on the last chorus hit" and a matching [End | cold stop] cue as the last line of the lyrics. If it still fades, put "long outro" in Exclude rather than writing "no fade" in Styles.
Do these tags work in Simple mode?
Simple mode gives you one prompt, so put the intro and ending sentences there. The bracket cues need the lyric field.
The shortcut
Session Sheet's free lyric checker flags bare headers and a missing ending in lyrics you paste, with no account. The app goes further: every package it writes asks for the intro's bar count in Styles, carries each section's cue into both Styles and the lyric headers, and ends the lyrics on an [End | …] cue, and its checks flag a package where one of those slips.