Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock
Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock runs at 73 BPM in the key of F minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 73 BPM
- Key
- F minor
- Length
- 6:29
- Genre
- funk
- Mood
- wistful
- Vocals
- Instrumental
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The prompt
A wistful funk track with explosive energy and a swung feel at 73 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A saxophone leads, improvising over the changes. Analog hiss adds texture, with a slapback delay on the lead. Mixed in a clean and spacious style, foregrounding melodic lead and low-end weight, 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
- 73
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- funk
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Lead instrument
- a saxophone
- Lead style
- improvising over the changes
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- wistful
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- melodic lead
- Secondary focus
- low-end weight
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
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 Herbie Hancock. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.