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Find Your Sound · Specialist Integration

Genre Intelligence supports FIND and BUILD. It is not a separate CP1 stage.

Use this library when you need to identify or explain the musical system itself: groove, low end, harmonic language, vocal role, texture, arrangement engine, genre drift or hybrid relationships.

TP1 FIND

Use Genre Intelligence when the sound direction is unclear. Build Genre Control Brief v1 and bring the useful decisions back into FIND.

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TP2 BUILD

Use the brief to test repeatable musical relationships across construction and controlled variation.

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Later stages

If CONTROL exposes a misunderstood genre relationship, return here. Otherwise keep the Genre Control Brief as evidence and continue the stage that owns the blocker.

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Find Your Sound · Genre Intelligence · Free LEARN + APPLY

100 musical systems. One place to find the right training.

Start with the musical problem, open the exact genre foundation, build a Genre Control Brief, then move into advanced BUILD only when the same control problem keeps repeating.

Genre Intelligence is generator-agnostic. Learn the musical system first; platform-specific guides only translate those decisions into a generator’s available controls.

100 verified non-duplicate Genre Intelligence systems are live.

Every genre name in this directory is clickable and routed to the published JR owner for that system. Subgenres and reference lanes stay grouped unless a distinct learner outcome justifies separate ownership.

Browse all 100Start from a blockerBuild your briefGet the Free Genre Starter Kit

START WITH WHAT YOU KNOW

You do not need to know the genre name to use this library.

Choose the closest description of where you are right now. Each route takes you into the same Genre Intelligence system from a different starting point.

THE SIX-LENS CHECK

Listen for relationships, not ingredients.

Groove

Pulse, swing, syncopation and rhythmic pressure.

Low end

Kick, bass and low-percussion roles.

Harmony

Chord, mode, riff and tension language.

Palette

Instrument and timbre jobs—not a shopping list of sounds.

Arrangement

Density, form, contrast and energy movement.

Foreground

What must command attention: voice, MC, riff, soloist, groove, ensemble or atmosphere.

If one of those words is still vague, hear it before you prompt it. Use Music Direction Vocabulary to hear and name behaviours such as pocket, syncopation, half-time feel, width, vocal proximity, transition behaviour and energy movement. Then return here and decide which of those behaviours actually belongs in the genre system you are building.

PROBLEM-FIRST FINDER

Use the nearest musical problem to enter the library.

Broken or syncopated club drumsUK Garage · Jersey Club · Footwork/Juke · Breakbeat/Breaks · Grime
Caribbean rhythm or sound-system identityReggae · Dub · Dancehall · Ska · Soca · Calypso · Kompa · Zouk
Latin result is too genericSalsa · Cumbia · Vallenato · Bachata · Merengue · Reggaeton · Bolero · Bossa Nova · Samba · Tango
African system keeps drifting into a neighborAfrobeats · Afrobeat · Amapiano · Highlife · Makossa · Mbalax · Coupé-Décalé · Zouglou · Gnawa
Guitar music owner is unclearRock · Punk · Pop-Punk · Post-Punk · Emo · Shoegaze · Dream Pop · Post-Rock · Metal
R&B / rap crossover identity is unclearR&B · Hip-Hop · Trap · Trap Soul · Melodic Rap · Neo Soul
Modal/classical tradition needs a precise ownerWestern Classical · Hindustani · Carnatic · Arabic Maqam · Turkish Makam · Persian Dastgah

FIND YOUR NEXT LANE

Move sideways by musical relationship, not by alphabetical neighbor.

Use this when your current genre is close but not quite right. Pick the relationship you want to change, then compare the listed systems. The goal is not to collect genre labels. It is to identify which musical system better owns the behavior you actually want.

Change the groove

House · UK Garage / 2-Step · Amapiano · Dancehall · Salsa · Samba

Listen for pulse ownership, swing, syncopation, subdivision and rhythmic pressure.

Change the low end

Dub · Drum & Bass · Dubstep · Trap · Gqom

Compare whether bass anchors, moves, answers the drums, creates pressure or becomes the foreground event.

Change the harmonic language

Jazz · Neo Soul · Bossa Nova · Arabic Maqam · Turkish Makam · Persian Dastgah

Compare chord movement, modal behavior, melodic pathway, tension and cadence—not just instrument choice.

Change the vocal job

Soul · R&B · Gospel · Qawwali · Raï · Fado

Compare rhetoric, call-and-response, ornamentation, storytelling, ensemble support and emotional escalation.

Change the texture

Ambient · Shoegaze · Dream Pop · Post-Rock · Trip Hop

Compare depth, density, blur, atmosphere, foreground distance and how texture changes across time.

Change the arrangement engine

Pop · Rock · Trance · Techno · Dub

Compare chorus architecture, dynamic arc, repetition, delayed release, subtraction and versioning.

BLEND WITHOUT LOSING THE OWNER

Choose one primary system before you hybridize.

Primary system: the genre that owns the groove, arrangement and main listener expectation. Secondary influence: the system contributing one or two controlled behaviors.

Do not ask for “50% A + 50% B.” Write the actual transfer: keep the Dancehall riddim and vocal pocket; borrow the atmospheric depth and texture motion from Ambient. Then Protect 3 from the primary system and change only one secondary relationship at a time.

WHEN THE RESULT KEEPS DRIFTING

Diagnose the first relationship that changed.

Compare the result to your references and ask: did the groove, low end, harmony, palette, arrangement or foreground move first? Then open the neighboring system that now better describes what you are hearing. Do not solve drift by adding more genre words.

Use the Sound Decision Card

FREE APPLY · COMPLETION TASK

Build Genre Control Brief v1.

Project job

[What should this track do?]

Primary system

[Which genre owns the groove, arrangement and main listener expectation?]

Groove

[Pulse, swing, syncopation and rhythmic pressure]

Low end

[Kick, bass and low-percussion roles]

Harmony

[Chord, mode, riff, melodic pathway and tension language]

Palette

[Instrument and timbre jobs]

Arrangement

[Density, form, contrast and energy movement]

Foreground

[What must command attention?]

Protect 3

1) ___   2) ___   3) ___

Nearest wrong answer

[Which neighboring system is the most likely drift, and why?]

Reject if

[Clearest audible sign the result no longer belongs to the intended system]
How to Use Jack Righteous

HEAR → NAME → BUILD → APPLY

Use the right reference for the problem you actually have.

1. Hear. You can hear what is wrong or what you want, but you do not know the musical term yet. Start with Music Direction Vocabulary | Hear It, Name It, Direct It. Its problem-first examples and Spotify ear-training references help you identify the behaviour.

2. Name. You know the genre family but need a compact map of useful style language. Use the A–Z AI Music Genre Prompt Reference.

3. Build. Return here and complete Genre Control Brief v1 across Groove, Low end, Harmony, Palette, Arrangement and Foreground. Add Protect 3, the nearest wrong answer and a clear Reject if.

4. Apply. Only after those musical decisions are clear should you translate the brief into Suno, Musicfy, Eleven Music or another generator’s available controls.

Hear & Name a Musical BehaviourOpen A–Z Genre Vocabulary

FREE JR RESOURCE · APPLY

Want the brief as a downloadable starter tool?

The Find Your Sound AI Genre Prompt Starter Kit is the free APPLY resource for this system. Use it after you have chosen the musical problem and before you start generating more versions. It helps turn genre vocabulary into one usable sound lane, one Protect 3 decision and one prompt-ready brief.

This is not a Suno model, membership tier or replacement curriculum. It is a free JR tool inside Genre Intelligence.

Get the Free Genre Starter KitReturn to Find Your Sound

PLATFORM APPLICATION · SUNO V6

Apply the same Genre Control Brief in Suno v6.

Do not rebuild your genre logic around a model picker. Keep the same creative brief and translate it into the Suno lane that best serves the job. JR’s paid account currently shows v6 · Pro, v6-wild · Pro and v6-mini; that confirms access on this account, not universal rollout timing.

v6 · Pro

Use as the standard premium lane when you want to test whether the model follows the established genre brief and preserves your Protect 3.

v6-wild · Pro

Use when the creative job benefits from deliberate exploration. Compare against the same brief rather than treating “wild” as automatically better.

v6-mini

Use as the free Suno implementation lane. The JR training and Genre Starter Kit remain separate from the model itself.

Evidence rule

As real v6 song examples are completed, the relevant genre and production lessons will receive those worked examples. Until then, keep the musical method evergreen and avoid inventing model behavior.

Open the current Suno implementation library →
See confirmed v6 status →
See live rollout intelligence →

PLATFORM APPLICATION · MUSICFY

Apply Your Genre Control Brief in Musicfy

Once the musical decisions are clear, translate the brief into Musicfy’s available controls rather than rewriting the musical system around the tool.

Groove / rhythm behavior

Style + tempo where useful.

Low end

Style.

Harmony / tonal center

Style + key when intentional.

Palette

Style.

Arrangement direction

Style + structure decisions.

Foreground / vocal role

Style or trained-voice workflow.

Existing musical source

Reference / Follow.

Runtime

Duration.

Apply the brief with Musicfy Style Prompting →
Use Musicfy Reference & Follow when a source matters →

Learn the genre once. Translate it into the tool you are using.

CLICKABLE A–Z LIBRARY

94 direct foundations + 6 Western Classical family/period owners = 100 verified systems.

Every genre name below is a link. Open the smallest relevant foundation first.

Afro HouseOpen foundation →AfrobeatOpen foundation →AfrobeatsOpen foundation →AmapianoOpen foundation →AmbientOpen foundation →Arabic MaqamOpen foundation →BachataOpen foundation →Baile Funk / Funk CariocaOpen foundation →BhangraOpen foundation →BluegrassOpen foundation →BluesOpen foundation →BoleroOpen foundation →Bossa NovaOpen foundation →Breakbeat / BreaksOpen foundation →CalypsoOpen foundation →Carnatic ClassicalOpen foundation →ChillhopOpen foundation →ChoroOpen foundation →Congolese Rumba / SoukousOpen foundation →CountryOpen foundation →Coupé-DécaléOpen foundation →CumbiaOpen foundation →DancehallOpen foundation →DiscoOpen foundation →Dream PopOpen foundation →DrillOpen foundation →Drum & BassOpen foundation →DubOpen foundation →DubstepOpen foundation →EmoOpen foundation →FadoOpen foundation →FlamencoOpen foundation →FolkOpen foundation →Footwork / JukeOpen foundation →FunkOpen foundation →GamelanOpen foundation →GnawaOpen foundation →GospelOpen foundation →GqomOpen foundation →GrimeOpen foundation →Hardcore Techno / GabberOpen foundation →HighlifeOpen foundation →Hindustani ClassicalOpen foundation →Hip-HopOpen foundation →HouseOpen foundation →Jamaican SkaOpen foundation →JazzOpen foundation →Jersey ClubOpen foundation →JujuOpen foundation →JungleOpen foundation →Kompa / CompasOpen foundation →KwaitoOpen foundation →Lo-Fi Hip HopOpen foundation →MakossaOpen foundation →MbalaxOpen foundation →Melodic RapOpen foundation →MerengueOpen foundation →MetalOpen foundation →Modern WorshipOpen foundation →MornaOpen foundation →Neo SoulOpen foundation →New Wave / SynthpopOpen foundation →Persian DastgahOpen foundation →PhonkOpen foundation →PopOpen foundation →Pop-PunkOpen foundation →Post-PunkOpen foundation →Post-RockOpen foundation →Psytrance / GoaOpen foundation →PunkOpen foundation →QawwaliOpen foundation →R&BOpen foundation →RaïOpen foundation →ReggaeOpen foundation →ReggaetonOpen foundation →RockOpen foundation →SalsaOpen foundation →SambaOpen foundation →ShoegazeOpen foundation →SocaOpen foundation →Soul / Classic SoulOpen foundation →SynthwaveOpen foundation →TaarabOpen foundation →TangoOpen foundation →TechnoOpen foundation →TranceOpen foundation →TrapOpen foundation →Trap SoulOpen foundation →Trip HopOpen foundation →Turkish MakamOpen foundation →UK Garage / 2-StepOpen foundation →VallenatoOpen foundation →ZouglouOpen foundation →ZoukOpen foundation →

Western Classical family and specialist period owners

The family foundation is free. Period-specific BUILD links are clearly labeled and only used where the control grammar materially changes.

What comes next?

Stay free while you are learning the system.

Use the Free Genre Starter Kit for APPLY, then return to Find Your Sound · Free Core or continue with Module 3 · Build the Work.

The same Sound problem keeps repeating.

Move into the Build Your Sound member dashboard or review Find Your Sound DEVELOP.

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