Come As You Are by Nirvana
Come As You Are by Nirvana runs at 120 BPM in the key of E minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Analysis facts
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Key
- E minor
- Length
- 3:39
- Genre
- indie rock
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
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The prompt
A restless indie rock track with high energy and a swung feel at 120 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a cracking and compressed snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A gritty male vocal delivers a layered in close harmony performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding vocal clarity and melodic lead, built on extended seventh 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
- 120
- Chords
- extended seventh
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- indie rock
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- cracking and compressed
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- melodic lead
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- Vocal
- a gritty male vocal
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key use acoustic measurement; descriptor claims use the commercially cleared classifier recorded with this analysis. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes. This page does not reproduce its lyrics. This analysis has not been checked by a person. Tempo, key, and genre come straight from the software, so treat them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Nirvana. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.