Which template is your song closest to?

You paste a sheet that has nothing wrong with it. Sections named, lines a sensible length, no directions in the wrong brackets. The findings list comes back empty, which is the outcome you wanted and also, briefly, an anticlimax.

Underneath it there is still something to read.

The panel that appears when there is nothing to fix

Here is the sheet, written for this piece:

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
The bakery lights come on at four
I know the sound the shutter makes

[Chorus]
I still buy the second cup
I still buy the second cup

[Verse 2]
You said the coffee here was bad
You drank it anyway for eight years

[Outro]
I still buy the second cup

With a Style field of "indie folk, acoustic guitar, female vocals, 95 bpm", the Suno lyrics check returns no findings at all. What it does return is a short list of public templates whose shape is closest to yours, each with a match percentage and a link into the templates gallery.

What the percentage is made of

Worth knowing before you read it as a verdict, because it is three things in a trench coat.

Sixty percent of it is section order. The page compares your sequence, in this case intro, verse, chorus, verse, outro, against each template's sequence, and scores the longest run of sections that appear in the same order in both.

Thirty-five percent is genre: one point if the template's genre word appears anywhere in your Style field, nothing if it does not. Up to twenty percent is mood, ten per mood word matched, capped at two.

Anything below the threshold is not shown, and at most three cards appear. So a card is telling you that your shape and your genre words line up with something in the gallery, not that your song is good.

Where my sheet actually landed

The sequence above is intro, verse, chorus, verse, outro. Against the current gallery, one template shares that order exactly:

Six templates in the gallery share four of five sections with this sheet, which tells you something about how conventional the shape is. What separates the top card from those six is the word "folk" in the Style field, worth more than a whole section of structure.

That is worth sitting with. If you change the Style field and nothing else, the order of the cards changes.

Move one section and the structure side moves too. Here is the same song with the chorus held back until after the second verse:

[Intro]
[Verse 1]
[Verse 2]
[Chorus]
[Outro]

That sequence matches Jazz lounge duet five for five and drops Indie folk campfire to four. Nothing about the words changed. Where the chorus lands is the structural decision, and it is the one the panel is most sensitive to.

Note

A high match is a statement about section order and genre words, not about quality. The gallery is a set of conventional shapes, so matching one closely mostly tells you your song is conventionally shaped.

Copy the shape, never the words

The useful version of this is the analysis you do on songs you love. Write out the section order of a record you know, where the chorus first lands, how long the verses are, whether there is a pre-chorus. That shape is not anybody's property, and it is the part worth borrowing.

The words are not. A structure is a plan; a lyric is the thing itself, and the line between them is not blurry.

The community tag lists give you the vocabulary to write that shape down once you have heard it, which is the same vocabulary the templates and the check use.

What a close match does not mean

It does not mean the template is right for your song. Five of five against a shape you would never listen to is a fact about section order and nothing else.

It does not mean an unmatched sheet is wrong either. Songs with no chorus, or three bridges, or a form nobody has named will score low against every card in the gallery and can still be the best thing you have written this year.

And a template is a starting shape rather than a rule, which is worth repeating whenever a number implies otherwise. If your sheet has no sections at all, the panel is telling you which shapes are near, and my lyrics have no section tags is the piece about naming them first.

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