# Rock beat for your vocals, made with AI | Lyro Music > Lyro writes a rock beat around your vocal: live drums, driving bass and distorted guitars. Your vocal stays untouched. Source: https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/rock # Make a rock beat for your vocals To make a rock beat for your vocals, upload or record the vocal in Lyro Music, choose Rock as the style and press Generate. Lyro reads the tempo and key of your voice in the browser, and its studio tools write live drums, driving bass and distorted guitars 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 rock 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 glanceRock | Tempo (BPM) | 100 to 160, with ballads near 70 and punk above 170 | |---|---| | Keys | guitar-friendly keys such as E minor, A minor, D major and G major | | Feel | straight 4/4 with a strong backbeat and driving eighth notes on bass and guitars; blues rock uses a shuffle | | Signature sounds | overdriven rhythm guitars, a punchy live drum kit with a strong backbeat, a melodic bass, a lead guitar hook and a powerful, slightly rough lead vocal | | Song form | usually the main riff, then verse, pre-chorus and chorus twice, a bridge or guitar solo after the second chorus and a final double chorus | Lyro follows your vocal’s own tempo and key, so the usual rock 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 Rock and describe the sound** Check the tempo and key Lyro reads, choose Rock, and add style words, for example: Rock beat: live drum kit, overdriven rhythm guitars, lead guitar, electric bass, power chords. - **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 Rock beat: live drum kit, overdriven rhythm guitars, lead guitar, electric bass, power chords ## Tips for this genre Rock is recognised by overdriven rhythm guitars, a punchy live drum kit with a strong backbeat, a melodic bass, a lead guitar hook and a powerful, slightly rough lead vocal. Describe it the way you would brief a producer: - Describe the guitar tone precisely, for example crunchy overdrive, fuzzy, jangly clean or high-gain, because tone separates the sub-styles. - Ask for a live drum kit and a live-band feel so the rhythm section does not sound programmed. - Avoid: Writing only "rock song" returns a safe mid-tempo track with no riff and no attitude. ### 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 rock 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 rock beat? The usual tempo of rock, in BPM: 100 to 160, with ballads near 70 and punk above 170. Its keys: guitar-friendly keys such as E minor, A minor, D major and G major. 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 rock? Name the sounds, not an artist. For example: “Rock beat: live drum kit, overdriven rhythm guitars, lead guitar, electric bass, power chords”. 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 rock 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 rock is not quite the sound? The neighbouring genres differ in clear ways: - Indie pop: the same band line-up played lighter, with jangly guitars and an understated vocal - Metal: faster, heavier and down-tuned, with double-kick drums and harsh or operatic vocals - Anatolian rock: a rock band playing Turkish folk modes and odd meters, with a baglama doubling the guitar riff ## Related **More for this genre:** [Mix and master](https://lyromusic.com/mix-and-master/rock) **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), [Reggaeton](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/reggaeton), [Amapiano](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/amapiano), [Lo-fi](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/lo-fi), [Acoustic folk](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/acoustic-folk), [K-pop](https://lyromusic.com/beat-for-vocals/k-pop) [Rock prompts: tempo, keys and eight prompts](https://lyromusic.com/prompts/rock) ## Hear it on your own track. 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