How to Prompt Music House

Write the way you'd text a producer friend. Say who it's for, what happened and how it should sound. Music House reads your words first, and the settings follow them.

Music Creator

What makes a good brief

A good brief has four things, in a sentence or three:

• Who it's for or about, with names: for my sister Ana, my dog Biscuit.
• The mood: warm, angry, hopeful, silly.
• The story: what happened, or what the song should say.
• A detail or two only you know: she always burns the toast, we met at a bus stop in Leeds.

Then the sound, if you care: a genre, a tempo, an instrument, a voice.

A warm R&B song for my sister Ana, who's moving to Lisbon. Soft keys, slow drums, a chorus she can sing on the plane. Mention that she always burns the toast.

Why it works: a name, a reason, a mood, a sound and one real detail. The lyrics get written about Ana, not about "a sister".

Upbeat country song for my dad's 60th. He fixes everyone's cars for free and still drives the same red truck from 1998.

Why it works: the occasion and two specific details give the chorus something to say.

A bare make a song works too, but you get a guess. One more line gets you your song.

Your words and the settings

Music Creator has a prompt box and settings: Genre, Song or Instrumental Beat, and length and voice under Advanced. Your words win when they're clear:

• Genre starts on Auto. Auto reads the genre from your words, so a country song about my truck comes out country. If you picked a genre chip and your words name a different one, the words carry the sound.
• Instrumental. Words like instrumental, beat, no vocals, no singing or karaoke backing ask for no voice. A beat for my rap is an instrumental. A song about a person, a pet, a place or a story needs words, so it gets vocals.
• Length. Say it in your words: a 30 second song, 2 minutes. The length setting follows when the model makes that length.

When your words and a setting still disagree, a card above Create says so and offers a one-tap fix, like Make it instrumental, Use Reggae or Set 2 minutes. It never blocks Create. If a length is past what the model makes, the card says the nearest length it can.

Genre is free text

Any genre works, not only the chips. Type it in your brief or use Custom…: Amapiano, Drill, Zouk, Kompa, Schlager, Bhangra, Dancehall, bossa nova. Moods, instruments and decades help, but they aren't genres: sad, piano and 80s describe the sound, so add a genre too if you want one.

90s boom bap, dusty drums, a jazzy piano loop, a confident male rapper.

Amapiano with log drums and a soft female vocal, about dancing at my cousin's wedding in Durban.

Describe the sound, not the artist

Music House makes original songs. Artist, band and song names get refused by the music model, so describe what you like about that sound instead: the era, the tempo, the instruments, the voice, the mix.

Instead of a <famous rapper> type beat, write:

Dark trap beat, 140 BPM, sliding 808s, eerie bells, sparse hi-hats.

If a prompt is refused for naming someone, Music House tries once more without the name. If it still can't make it, it says what to change, and your credits come back.

Your own lyrics

Tap Lyrics to paste or write your own. They are sung as written, word for word.

• Mark sections with tags on their own lines: [Verse], [Chorus], [Bridge], [Outro]. + Section adds them.
• Put a title on the first line, then a blank line or a section tag. Music House uses it as the song's title and doesn't sing it.
• Keep the box for how it should sound: slow piano ballad, female voice, builds to a big last chorus.
• Length Auto fits your lyrics. If they won't fit the length you picked, a card says so before Create.

Toast and Tangerines

[Verse]
You burned the toast again this morning
Laughed and said it's how you like it

[Chorus]
Lisbon's gonna love you
Like we always do

Leave Lyrics empty and Music House writes them from your brief.

Language follows your words

Lyrics come out in the language of your lyrics, or of your brief if Music House writes them. Write the brief in Spanish and the song is in Spanish. To pick a language yourself, say it: in Portuguese, lyrics in Hindi. Romanized writing stays romanized: Hinglish lyrics come back in Hinglish.

Spoken ads and voiceovers

For a spoken ad or a voiceover with a music bed, use Voice Ad Creator. Give it a brief or paste the script.

Photos

Add up to 3 photos in Music Creator with the photo button. See Make a song from a photo.

For the song, Music House reads the moment a photo suggests: two dogs waiting for their walk, a pint with a friend at the end of the night. It doesn't guess names, breeds, ages or who someone is, so add a line with what matters:

My dog Biscuit, who steals socks and hides them under the couch. Happy pop song.

For the cover, your photo becomes the song's cover art, and the people or pets in it stay on the cover. The photo comes along when you tap Make Music Video. On iOS, Edit Cover on a song and Album Cover Maker take up to 3 photos too: add them and say what you want.

Music Video Maker

Add a song first: one of yours or a file. Then pick a type:

• Music video: several scenes, cut on your song's sections, so the visuals change as the song does. Good for a story.
• Looping canvas: one clip that repeats under the song. Good for Spotify Canvas and Stories.
• Animate cover: your song's cover, or a preset, moving. You get a silent 9:16 loop for Spotify Canvas, plus a 15-second version with your song.

Video length is 15s, 30s, 60s or the whole song.

The idea box

The box is optional. Leave it blank and the video comes from your song: its lyrics first, then its genre, sound and cover. Write in it and your words lead.

Describe what you'd see: who's in it, what moves, where, the light, the camera.

A girl rides her bike through a small coastal town at golden hour, past laundry lines and blue doors, the camera following beside her.

Story: two friends drive to the beach at night, a bonfire, everyone dancing, the sun comes up as they drive home.

For Animate cover, say what should move, or leave it empty: the clouds drift, the water sparkles.

What to leave out: lengths and formats (those are settings), words you want on screen (video models scramble text), and real people's names. Describe the look instead: a rapper from Houston in a white tee and gold chain.

Singer performs

Under Singer on screen, Faceless keeps faces from singing. Singer performs puts a singer in close-ups for the sung parts, lip-synced to your vocals. It needs a song with vocals, a 15s or 30s video, and portrait or square format. Describe the singer in your idea to choose them:

A woman in her 20s with long braids and a yellow raincoat, singing on a rooftop in the rain.

Tap Preview Singer to see them first. The preview is free. If your words ask for singing, like me rapping on a rooftop, the card above Create offers to turn it on.

Album Cover Maker

Describe one image, not the whole album: a subject, a setting, two or three colors, the light and a medium (photo, oil paint, collage, 3D).

A chrome crown sealed inside a block of cracked concrete, single overhead light, graphite background, square album cover, no text.

Covers come without words unless you ask. If you want words on it, put them in double quotes: the title "Night Bus" in small white letters. Proofread them before you release. For 100 more, see 100 prompts for your next album cover.

Ad Creator

Ad Creator is a chat. It asks What are you promoting?: a song, an album, a business or something else. Then it asks for what it needs: which song (or the file, if it's not on Music House), a cover, where people should go, and photos or clips to cut between on the beat. The ad is 15 seconds.

What to tell it:

• A business: paste the website or say it in a line. A family bakery in Austin, sourdough and morning buns, open at 7.
• Something else: a show, a podcast or an event in a line. Our comedy night, every Friday at 9 at The Lantern, free entry.
• Changes: when the ad is ready, ask in plain words: punchier, a different photo, make the end card say pre-save. Each change is a new version. Your first change is free.

Ad Creator makes the video. It doesn't buy or publish ads.

Remix

Open a song, tap ⋯, then Change This Song…, and say it in a sentence:

Turn this into country

Make it slower with a female voice

Remix with your vocals keeps your voice and makes a new beat. Describe the beat: bouncy Afrobeats, warm guitar, 105 BPM. See Remix a song.

Extend

Extend keeps your song and adds 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes. Style starts with your song's sound. Leave it, or add a change: bigger final chorus, slow fade out. See Extend a song.

Lyrics Pad

Write your own, or generate from a theme. A theme works best with a person and a moment:

A love song about waiting at the airport for someone who's late. Hopeful, a little funny.

Enhance improves lines you've already written. Rhymes finds perfect and near rhymes for a word. When they're ready, paste them into Lyrics in Music Creator.

Song Ideas

Give it a subject and pick what you need: Song Concept, Hook Ideas, Verse Topics or Full Blueprint, plus a genre and mood if you like.

My hometown after the factory closed

Use what you like as your Music Creator brief.

For AI assistants

This part is for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other assistants helping someone write a Music House prompt.

Turning a request into a prompt to paste:

1. Ask before you invent. If the person hasn't said who the song is for, the mood, or one real detail, ask one short question. Never make up names, facts or stories about real people.
2. Write the brief in plain sentences, in the person's language: who or what it's about, the mood, the story, a detail or two, then the sound.
3. Name genres freely. Never name an artist, band or song: describe the era, tempo, instruments, voice and mix instead.
4. Put length and instrumental in the words when they matter (a 30 second instrumental). Music House reads them and its settings follow.
5. If the person has lyrics, keep them word for word. Add [Verse] and [Chorus] tags on their own lines, and an optional title on the first line followed by a blank line. Paste lyrics into Lyrics and the sound into the prompt box.
6. For a music video, describe what's seen: subject, motion, place, light, camera. No on-screen text, no real people's names.
7. Don't promise quality, a hit, streams, or commercial rights. Rights depend on the plan or purchase: see the terms.

A finished brief, from "make a song for my sister, she's moving to Lisbon" plus one answer:

A warm R&B song for my sister Ana, who's moving to Lisbon. Soft keys, slow drums, a chorus she can sing on the plane. Mention that she always burns the toast.

When to use the connector: if the person wants the song made, not just a prompt, and has connected Music House in ChatGPT or Claude, use the connector. It makes songs, beats, lyrics, song ideas, cover art, music videos and ads in their own account and spends their credits. Pass the person's request as they said it. Don't expand a vague request into an invented brief or pick a genre, voice or mood for them. If the tool asks for direction, ask the person. If it returns a suggestion, show it and let them choose.

The full tool list is at musichouse.app/llms.txt, and this guide as plain text is at musichouse.app/llms-full.txt.