Long tunes include pastoral songs, homesickness songs, hymns, feast songs, wedding songs, etc. They have free rhythms, long tunes, deep and gentle tunes, and are the most grassland flavor of Mongolian folk songs. Because of the different popular areas, there are Chahar long tunes, Hulunbeier long tunes, Zhelim long tunes and Ordos long tunes. In addition to the monophonic long tone, there is a long tone with a sustained bass Mongolian language called "Chaoer Yindao" Mongolian folk singers. Mongolian people in the Altai region of Xinjiang retained an ancient and peculiar "Hao Lin Chao Er", a person at the same time singing two voices, to the base of the sound constitutes a sustained tone, to overtones constitute a beautiful melody. "Hao Lin Chao Er" is mostly used to express the magnificent natural scenery.
Short tunes are generally rhythmic and neat, compact structure, short sentences, hunting songs, narrative songs and part of the banquet dance songs, love songs, wedding songs belong to short tunes.