Window Seat by Erykah Badu
Window Seat by Erykah Badu runs at 82 BPM in the key of G minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Analysis facts
- Tempo
- 82 BPM
- Key
- G minor
- Length
- 4:50
- Genre
- soul
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Vocal
The prompt
A brooding soul track with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 82 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and tight closed hats. Electric piano carries the harmony, block chords. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. 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 tense and coiled atmosphere.
Paste this into any style field. It describes the sound only — adjust anything that does not match what you are after.
Generate this direction
Our music workbench opens with this style already filled in. Change anything, add lyrics, then generate a track.
Open this prompt in the workbenchTracks start at $0.30, paid from a prepaid balance. The smallest top-up is $5.
What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 82
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- tight closed hats
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- soul
- Harmonic instrument
- electric piano
- Harmonic style
- block chords
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a full-voiced female vocal
About this page
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Erykah Badu. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.