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Hoochie Coochie Man by Muddy Waters

Hoochie Coochie Man by Muddy Waters runs at 71 BPM in the key of A major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.

Measured

Tempo
71 BPM
Key
A major
Length
2:50
Genre
blues
Mood
wistful
Vocals
Vocal

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The prompt

A wistful blues track blending R&B with high energy and a swung feel at 71 BPM. The low end is upright bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a rimshot-forward snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows verse-chorus. A gritty male vocal delivers a raw and unpolished performance. Field-recording ambience adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a dense and compressed style, foregrounding vocal clarity and low-end weight, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a tense and coiled atmosphere.

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What the analysis found

Bass instrument
upright bass
Bassline style
root-note anchored
Tempo
71
Chords
chromatic and shifting
Cymbals
washy crash-led cymbals
Energy
high
Atmosphere
tense and coiled
Genre
blues
Second genre
R&B
Harmonic instrument
clean electric guitar
Harmonic style
fingerpicked
Mixing style
dense and compressed
Mood
wistful
Percussion
an acoustic drum kit
Rhythmic style
swung
Snare
rimshot-forward
Sonic focus
vocal clarity
Secondary focus
low-end weight
Space
a slapback delay
Structure
verse-chorus
Textural detail
field-recording ambience
Vocal style
raw and unpolished
Vocal
a gritty male 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 Muddy Waters. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.

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