# Reggaeton beat for your vocals, made with AI | Lyro Music

> Lyro writes a reggaeton beat around your vocal: the dembow rhythm, a deep bass and Latin percussion. Your vocal stays untouched.

Source: https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/reggaeton

# Make a reggaeton beat for your vocals

To make a reggaeton beat for your vocals, upload or record the vocal in Lyro Music, choose Reggaeton as the style and press Generate. Lyro reads the tempo and key of your voice in the browser, and its studio tools write the dembow rhythm, a deep bass and Latin percussion around your phrasing, returned as an instruments-only track. Your vocal stays untouched on its own track, and the two open together in the mixer.

It costs one credit per started minute, with a minimum of 2 credits, on every plan.

**Drop your vocal here** WAV, MP3, FLAC, M4A or OGG, up to 60 MB. Tempo and key are read in your browser; nothing is uploaded until you sign up.

What should the beat sound like?

Sign up and Lyro builds on your vocal.

[Write a reggaeton beat around this vocal](https://lyromusic.com/signup?next=%2Fapp%2Fcreate)

No file at hand? [Start from a description](https://lyromusic.com/start?have=vocal), or [generate a prompt](https://lyromusic.com/ai-music-prompt-generator).

## At a glanceReggaeton

| Tempo (BPM) | 88 to 100 |
|---|---|
| Keys | minor keys, often A minor, B minor or F# minor |
| Feel | dembow: kick on every beat, snare on the syncopated 3+3+2 accents |
| Signature sounds | the dembow drum pattern, a kick on every beat with snares on the 3+3+2 accents, plus a round sub bass, a plucked synth or Latin guitar hook and a half-sung, half-rapped vocal |
| Song form | usually the hook melody or a filtered chorus first, then the dembow, verse, pre-chorus and chorus, often a guest or rap verse in the middle, and a breakdown without the dembow before the final chorus |

Lyro follows your vocal’s own tempo and key, so the usual reggaeton range is a guide to how it will feel, not a setting.

## How it goesThree steps

- **Upload or record your vocal** Use a WAV, MP3 or M4A file, or record from your microphone in the browser. Record it dry: no reverb and no music in the room.
- **Pick Reggaeton and describe the sound** Check the tempo and key Lyro reads, choose Reggaeton, and add style words, for example: Reggaeton beat: dembow drums, punchy kick, rimshot snare, sub bass, plucked synth.
- **Get the beat, then mix** The instruments come back as their own track beside your vocal. Balance them in the studio, master and export WAV.

## Style words to pasteIn English, as the Style box reads them

Reggaeton beat: dembow drums, punchy kick, rimshot snare, sub bass, plucked synth

## Tips for this genre

Reggaeton is recognised by the dembow drum pattern, a kick on every beat with snares on the 3+3+2 accents, plus a round sub bass, a plucked synth or Latin guitar hook and a half-sung, half-rapped vocal. Describe it the way you would brief a producer:

- Write "dembow drum pattern" by name, since it is the single most important phrase in the prompt.
- Keep the tempo between 90 and 96 BPM for the classic feel, and go up to 100 BPM for a pop-leaning track.
- Avoid: Describing the beat only as "Latin rhythm" can return salsa or samba percussion instead of dembow.

### Where the limits are

- Free-tempo singing, with no steady pulse, is hard to build a beat around; sing to a click or a simple loop.
- Tempo detection can land on half or double the real value, and key detection on the relative key: check both before you generate.
- Background music, room echo or noise in the recording confuses the detection and the model.
- The instruments are new and written for your vocal; Lyro does not copy an existing beat or an artist’s sound.

## Questions

### Will Lyro change my vocal when it makes the reggaeton beat?

No. Your recording is the input, and it stays on its own track, untouched. The beat comes back as a separate, instruments-only track, and the two meet only in the mixer, where you set the balance.

### What tempo is a reggaeton beat?

The usual tempo of reggaeton, in BPM: 88 to 100. Its keys: minor keys, often A minor, B minor or F# minor. Lyro builds the beat on your vocal’s own tempo and key, which it reads in the browser and you can correct, so sing at the tempo you want the song to have.

### What should I write in the style box for reggaeton?

Name the sounds, not an artist. For example: “Reggaeton beat: dembow drums, punchy kick, rimshot snare, sub bass, plucked synth”. Lyro does not take a real artist’s name as a style, and describing the drums, bass and one lead instrument gets you closer than a name would.

### What does a reggaeton beat for my vocal cost?

One credit per started minute of your vocal, with a minimum of 2 credits, so a three-minute vocal costs 3 credits. It is on every plan, and mixing and mastering in the studio cost no credits. Failed generations are refunded in credits automatically.

### What if reggaeton is not quite the sound?

The neighbouring genres differ in clear ways:

- Latin pop: the same languages and hooks over a pop backbeat, with clave-based percussion in place of the dembow
- [Afrobeats](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/afrobeats): a little faster at 95 to 115 BPM, with a bouncier, clave-like kick pattern and highlife guitar
- [Trap](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/trap): shares the 808 and the ad-libs, in half-time at 130 to 160 BPM

## Related

**More for this genre:** [A vocal for your beat](https://lyromusic.com/vocals-for-beats/reggaeton), [Remix your song](https://lyromusic.com/remix-into/reggaeton), [Mix and master](https://lyromusic.com/mix-and-master/reggaeton)

**Other genres:** [Pop](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/pop), [R&B](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/rnb), [Hip-hop](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/hip-hop), [Trap](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/trap), [Drill](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/drill), [Afrobeats](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/afrobeats), [Amapiano](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/amapiano), [Lo-fi](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/lo-fi), [Rock](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/rock), [Acoustic folk](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/acoustic-folk), [K-pop](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/k-pop)

[Reggaeton prompts: tempo, keys and eight prompts](https://lyromusic.com/prompts/reggaeton)

## Hear it on your own track.

[Make a beat for my vocal](https://lyromusic.com/start?have=vocal)