Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones runs at 158 BPM in the key of C major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Analysis facts
- Tempo
- 158 BPM
- Key
- C major
- Length
- 3:22
- Genre
- indie rock
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
The prompt
A restless indie rock track blending hard rock with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 158 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a tight and dry snare and sparse dark 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. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a wide stereo chorus on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding vocal clarity and percussive detail, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a tense and coiled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 158
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- indie rock
- Second genre
- hard rock
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- tight and dry
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- percussive detail
- Space
- a wide stereo chorus
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
- Vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- Vocal
- a gritty male vocal
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