Time's A Wastin by Erykah Badu
Time's A Wastin by Erykah Badu runs at 75 BPM in the key of A major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 75 BPM
- Key
- A major
- Length
- 6:41
- Genre
- soul
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Vocal
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The prompt
A brooding soul track with high energy and a swung feel at 75 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and sparse dark cymbals. Electric piano carries the harmony, block chords. The arrangement follows verse-chorus with a bridge. A full-voiced female vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the vocal. Mixed in a clean and spacious style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 75
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- soul
- Harmonic instrument
- electric piano
- Harmonic style
- block chords
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- verse-chorus with a bridge
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a full-voiced female vocal
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key are measured from the audio; instrumentation and production characteristics are classified against a fixed vocabulary. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes, and no lyrics from it are stored. The measurements and classifications are automated estimates, so use them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Erykah Badu. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.