Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys by Willie Nelson
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys by Willie Nelson runs at 87 BPM in the key of A major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 87 BPM
- Key
- A major
- Length
- 3:27
- Genre
- country
- Mood
- tender
- Vocals
- Vocal
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The prompt
A tender country track blending folk with explosive energy and a swung feel at 87 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a rimshot-forward snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Acoustic guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows verse-chorus. A warm male vocal delivers a restrained and conversational performance. Field-recording ambience adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a clean and spacious style, foregrounding vocal clarity and low-end weight, built on simple triad 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
- 87
- Chords
- simple triad
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- country
- Second genre
- folk
- Harmonic instrument
- acoustic guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- tender
- 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
- restrained and conversational
- 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.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Willie Nelson. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.