Describe the mood, genre or scene. The AI instrumental generator composes two full instrumental tracks per request, from beats to film scores.
It composes new music with no vocals from a short description: a beat to rap over, a bed for a video, a loop for a game or a cue for a trailer. Every request returns two full instrumental tracks with a real arrangement, not a one-bar loop, usually in about a minute for 12 credits.
“Background for a cooking video” or “boss fight in a pixel game” tells the instrumental generator more than a genre name alone: it decides how busy, how long and how loud the track should feel.
Tap a few sound tags or write your own line: genre, tempo, one or two lead instruments and what to leave out. Leave it empty and you get a full arrangement with a clear melody.
Both versions play back to back. Keep the one that fits, download it as an MP3, or change one word in the sound line and generate again.
Each track below came from the brief printed under it, sent once to this AI instrumental generator. The titles are the ones the model gave them; press play to hear the whole set in a row.
2:03A beat to rap over
“A dark trap beat for a rapper to write over: eerie bell melody, hard 808s and space left in the middle for vocals.”
2:07Background for a vlog
“Light, happy background music for a weekend travel vlog: morning market, coffee, a walk by the sea. Never busy enough to compete with talking.”
1:22A game's overworld loop
“Overworld music for a retro pixel-art adventure game: a hero leaving the village, curious and brave, catchy enough to loop for hours.”
7:34Study and deep work
“Calm music for two hours of deep work: no surprises, no drops, a slow warm pulse that disappears into the background.”
2:07A trailer or battle scene
“A trailer cue for the final battle: quiet ticking tension, then pounding drums and a huge brass theme for the last thirty seconds.”
2:49A dance or a hook to sing over
“A warm Afrobeats groove for a sunset beach party, made to dance to or to sing a hook over.”
Pick what the music is for, a mood, a lead sound and a tempo. The builder writes the sentence and the sound line the way the examples above were written, and sends both to the generator.
1 · What is it for?
2 · Mood
3 · Lead sound
4 · Tempo
Your instrumental brief
A bright and uplifting instrumental for the background of a video, led by acoustic and electric guitar. It stays under a voice-over, no sudden changes.
Fills the description and sound fields above. Edit anything before you press Create; nothing is submitted for you.
Here is the brief behind “Eerie Bell Melody”, the trap beat at the top of the examples, split into the parts that do the work. You rarely need all six; purpose, genre and one lead sound already get most of the way.
“Chill instrumental music.”
Typical result: a pleasant track with no clear purpose. It may have drums you did not want or a lead that competes with your voice-over.
“Calm music for two hours of deep work: no surprises, no drops, a slow warm pulse.”
What came back: “Warm Analog Pad”, a 7:34 ambient piece with felt piano, warm pads and no drums.
Name a genre, a tempo and two or three sound words. These ranges are common starting points for each style, not rules; the model follows the words you choose.
Background music has a job: sit under a voice, loop without a seam, or build to one moment. Each recipe says what that job needs; send it as is or change the details.
Ask for a simple arrangement so the music never fights the voice-over.
“Easy, friendly background music for a cooking tutorial. Steady from start to finish, never louder than the voice.”
Name the hook and the ending: podcasts need a clean start and a clean stop.
“A confident podcast intro for a show about small businesses: a memorable hook in the first five seconds and a clean ending.”
Say “loopable” and avoid fade-outs so the track can repeat without a seam.
“Calm exploration music for a cozy farming game: morning in the fields, gentle and loopable for long play sessions.”
Give the energy curve: where it lifts, and how long the spot is.
“Music for a 30-second app launch video: modern and optimistic, lifting halfway through when the product appears.”
Rule out what distracts: drums, drops, sudden changes.
“A slow, warm track for falling asleep after a long day, like rain on a window and a lamp turned low.”
Name the platform energy; short, punchy builds suit clips and highlight reels.
“High-energy music for a gaming highlight reel: punchy, modern, with a drop where the best clip lands.”
The same tool works as an AI beat generator. A beat needs three things in the sound line: the style, a tempo, and the drums and bass that carry it. Add “room for vocals” or “sparse” so the arrangement leaves space for your verse, then record over the MP3 in any recording app.
boom bap beat, 90 BPM, dusty drums, chopped soul sample, upright bass, room for vocals
dark trap beat, 140 BPM half-time, sliding 808s, rolling hi-hats, eerie bells, sparse
UK drill beat, 142 BPM, sliding 808s, skippy hi-hats, cold piano, sparse
lo-fi hip hop beat, 82 BPM, Rhodes chords, vinyl crackle, lazy swung drums
slow R&B beat, 70 BPM, warm keys, finger snaps, deep bass, smooth and spacious
afrobeats beat, 104 BPM, log drums, shakers, guitar riff, bouncy groove
Want the rap written and performed on the beat as well? The AI Rap Generator makes the whole song, and the free Rap Lyrics Generator drafts bars you can edit first.
Search for “instrumental maker” and you will find two different kinds of tool. Knowing which one you need saves time.
As between you and MakeASong, you own the instrumentals you generate and may use them in videos, podcasts, streams, games and client work, as the Terms of Service set out. Two limits are worth knowing before you publish:
For a song with singing, use the AI Song Generator, or Lyrics to Song when the words are already written. Name the finished track with the free Song Title Generator, and see plans and credit packs on the pricing page.
An AI instrumental generator composes new music with no singing from a written description. On MakeASong you describe the mood, genre, instruments or the scene the music is for, and get two full instrumental tracks back, usually in about a minute.
No. Every request from this page is sent with instrumental mode on, whatever you type, so both takes come back without singing or lyrics. Describe the instruments you want in the sound field rather than writing “no vocals” yourself.
Yes. Under our Terms you own the tracks you generate and can use them for any lawful purpose, including monetized videos, podcasts, streams and games. We cannot promise a track is unique or that a platform’s content-ID system will never flag it, so keep your account history as a record of when you made it.
The model chooses the length from your brief, most often two to four minutes. In our examples a trailer cue came back at 1:17 and an ambient focus track ran past seven minutes. There is no length slider yet; write “short, under one minute” or “long, slowly evolving” to steer it.
Yes, write them in the sound field, for example “92 BPM, D minor”. The model treats tempo and key as strong hints rather than exact settings, so check the result with a BPM tool if your video edit or DAW project depends on an exact number.
Not on this page: it creates new music from text and does not accept uploads. To take the vocals out of an existing song, use our Vocal Remover, which splits it into an instrumental and an acapella. Only do that with music you have the rights to.
Yes. Ask for a beat with its style, tempo and drum sound, such as “boom bap beat, 90 BPM, dusty drums, chopped soul sample”, and leave space for vocals. When you want the rap performed too, use the AI Rap Generator instead.
Each take downloads as an MP3. A request costs 12 credits and returns two instrumentals; new accounts get 80 free credits, and credits for a failed request are returned automatically.