Suno Progressive house prompt
Progressive house in Suno lives at 122–128 BPM, usually around 126. Below is a Styles prompt that passes our Styles checker, the Exclude list that stops v6 drifting toward distorted guitars, trap hi-hats, rock drums, a 3:18 arrangement in bars and the cued lyric headers. Copy it, change the mood and the parts you hear differently, paste.
Styles
progressive house, 126 BPM, euphoric. 2010s progressive house, long filtered builds. Soulful lead with gospel ad-libs, or a chopped diva phrase used as the hook. Long evolving arpeggiated pluck, rolling 16th bass, a layer added every 8 bars, a wide pad breakdown into a melodic lift, piano or lead hook on the drop. Arrangement: intro 16 bars, vocal a 16 bars, build 8 bars, drop 16 bars, breakdown 16 bars, build 8 bars, drop 2 16 bars, outro 8 bars. Kick and sub dominate the low end, vocal in front during breakdowns, chords sidechained to the kick, wide hats and percussion. Ends on the outro's last downbeat.
Exclude styles
distorted guitars, trap hi-hats, rock drums, rap verses
Lead tag: open Styles with progressive house, word for word. It’s the wording Suno’s own tags use, so it carries more weight than a description.
Vocal: sung lead by default. Variety at 0 keeps Suno from rewriting the prompt on a final take.
What makes it Progressive house
Name the parts, not the vibe.
Suno plays what you name. “Progressive house vibes” gets you its idea of the average progressive house track; the parts below are what make the genre itself, so they go in the prompt as instructions to the band.
- long evolving arpeggiated pluck
- rolling 16th bass
- a layer added every 8 bars
- a wide pad breakdown into a melodic lift
- piano or lead hook on the drop
Production colour: 2010s progressive house, long filtered builds. One phrase like this sets the era better than a list of adjectives.
Why the Exclude list matters. v6 leans toward pop and toward whatever the neighbouring genres share. For progressive house that means distorted guitars, trap hi-hats and rock drums creeping in. Put those in Exclude, never as “no …” in Styles: a negative in Styles names the thing and often adds it.
Mix placement beats quality words: “kick and sub dominate the low end” tells Suno where things sit. “Radio-ready” or “professional” tells it nothing.
Song structure
A 3:18 radio edit at 126 BPM.
| Section | Bars | Starts | What plays |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intro | 16 | 0:00 | kick, hats, shaker |
| Vocal A | 16 | 0:30 | — |
| Build | 8 | 1:01 | — |
| Drop | 16 | 1:16 | full groove + hook |
| Breakdown | 16 | 1:47 | kick out, chords and vocal |
| Build | 8 | 2:17 | — |
| Drop 2 | 16 | 2:32 | — |
| Outro | 8 | 3:03 | — |
| End | — | 3:18 | — |
Lyric headers
[Intro | kick, hats, shaker] [Vocal A | soulful lead over the groove] [Build | rising, tension building] [Drop | hook over the full groove] [Breakdown | kick out, chords and vocal] [Build | rising, tension building] [Drop 2 | hook over the full groove] [Outro | fading out] [End | clean ending]
Every header carries a direction after the bar, [Section | how it’s performed]. A bare [Verse] leaves the delivery to chance. The last line, [End | clean ending], is what stops the fade-out and the bonus minute of noodling.
Lyrics
Writing words for progressive house.
House vocals are mantras: a short hook line repeated until it becomes a feeling, answered by gospel-style ad-libs in parentheses. Lines 4 to 8 syllables. Repetition is intentional: the hook line is sung word for word every time; only the last repeat may shift one word of another line. Verses are one tight image, not a story.
Keep verse lines to about 8 syllables and hook lines to about 6. Longer lines get rushed or swallowed; our lyric checker counts them for you.
Phrases that make it sound generated
- lose control
- lose myself
- losing control
- feel the beat
- feel the music
- feel the rhythm
- hands up
- hands in the air
- all night long
- move your body
- take me higher
- on the dance floor
Every one of these turns up in thousands of AI songs. Swap each for the specific thing it stands in for: a place, an object, what someone actually said.
Borrowing
Use progressive house as an influence.
Want a touch of progressive house in another genre? Don’t put “progressive house” in the lead tag of a different song: Suno will switch genres. Borrow one part and say where it goes:
- a long evolving arpeggiated pluck under the breakdown
- a wide pad breakdown into a melodic lift before the last drop
- a new layer entering every 8 bars through the intro
Get the whole progressive house package.
This page is the starting point. Session Sheet writes the full song for your idea — Styles in your own sound, cued lyrics, Exclude and the settings card — and checks every line before you paste.
Start free