Add a vocal to your afro house beat
To add a vocal to your afro house beat, upload the beat in Lyro Music, paste your lyrics or say what the song is about, and pick a voice: for afro house, “Female, soulful” is the usual fit. Lyro’s vocal model listens to the beat itself and sings or raps your words on its tempo and grid, then returns the vocal alone, as its own track. Your beat is never changed.
With lyrics it costs 7 credits for a beat of up to a minute and 11 credits for three minutes, on every plan.
What should the vocal sing?
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Add a vocal to this afro house beatNo file at hand? Start from a description, or generate a prompt.
At a glanceAfro house
| Tempo (BPM) | 118 to 125 |
|---|---|
| Keys | minor keys, often F# minor or A minor |
| Feel | four-on-the-floor kick with syncopated hand percussion and a rolling log drum or sub bassline |
| Signature sounds | a rolling log drum or sub bassline, layered hand percussion such as congas, shakers and djembe over a four-on-the-floor kick, and one short motif on marimba, kalimba or a plucked synth |
| Song form | usually a percussion intro of 16 to 32 bars, then the bass, then the motif and the vocal, a breakdown near the middle, the full groove again and a drum outro for mixing |
| Voice that fits | Female, soulful |
| The usual vocal | Vocals in afro house are usually sparse: chants, short call-and-response phrases, or a soulful lead over a few lines, treated with reverb and delay. |
How it goesThree steps
- Upload your beatLyro reads its tempo and key in the browser in a few seconds. Correct them if you know the real values.
- Give it words and a voicePaste your lyrics, or let Lyro write a verse and a hook from one line about the song. Then pick the voice: “Female, soulful” for afro house.
- Mix the vocal with your beatThe vocal opens in the studio beside your beat. Nudge a phrase that lands early or late, balance the two and master.
Tips for this genre
Three things decide how a vocal on an afro house beat comes out: the words, the voice and the delivery.
- Write the whole verse and the hook. With only a few lines, the model adds lines of its own.
- Keep the lines of a verse to a similar number of syllables, so none of them gets rushed.
- Use the Style box for the delivery you want in afro house, such as laid-back, breathy, aggressive or melodic. Name a delivery, never an artist.
Where the limits are
- The model writes its own melody for your words; you steer it with the lyrics, the voice and a line of style, not note by note.
- An AI vocal can mispronounce a word, and a new attempt costs credits.
- A word can still land slightly early or late; split that phrase in the studio and move it on the grid.
- Lyro has no voice cloning, and it does not imitate a real singer or rapper.
Questions
Will Lyro change my afro house beat?
No. The vocal model listens to your beat so it can sing on it, but what comes back is only the new vocal, as its own track. Your beat file is never changed; the two meet in the mixer.
Which voice suits afro house?
“Female, soulful”. Afro house vocals are soulful leads or chanted phrases, so the soulful voice fits; keep the words short and repeated. You can pick any of Lyro’s voices and describe the delivery in the style box.
Does the vocal land on my beat’s timing?
The vocal model hears the beat itself, not only its tempo, and sings on its grid. A word can still land slightly early or late; you fix that in the studio by splitting the phrase and moving it.
I have no lyrics yet. Can Lyro write them?
Yes. Say in one line what the song is about, or pick a theme such as love, heartbreak or hustle, and Lyro writes a verse and a hook in the style of afro house before it sings them. They appear on screen, so you can edit them before the next try.
What does it cost?
With lyrics, 7 credits for a beat of up to a minute and 11 credits for three minutes. An improvised vocal without written words costs one credit per started minute, with a minimum of 2. It is on every plan, and failed generations are refunded automatically.
Is my beat really afro house?
The neighbouring genres differ in clear ways:
- Amapiano: slower at 108 to 115 BPM and without the four-on-the-floor kick; the log drum leads the track instead of rolling under it
- Deep house: the same tempo range, but built on swung hats and jazzy electric piano chords where afro house is built on hand percussion
- Melodic house: shares the steady kick and the long arrangement, but the centre is an arpeggio over evolving pads, with percussion in a supporting role