Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones runs at 120 BPM in the key of C# minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Key
- C# minor
- Length
- 4:31
- Genre
- hard rock
- Mood
- tender
- Vocals
- Vocal
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The prompt
A tender hard rock track blending blues 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 brushed snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A warm male vocal delivers a layered in close harmony performance. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding vocal clarity and melodic lead, 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
- 120
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- hard rock
- Second genre
- blues
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- tender
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- melodic lead
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
- Vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- Vocal
- a warm 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.
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