Gyroscope by Boards of Canada
Gyroscope by Boards of Canada runs at 92 BPM in the key of G major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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.
Measured
- Tempo
- 92 BPM
- Key
- G major
- Length
- 3:35
- Genre
- ambient
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A brooding ambient track with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 92 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and sparse dark cymbals. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, sustained and washy. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A lead synth leads, improvising over the changes. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with an intimate dry space on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding percussive detail and melodic lead, 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
- 92
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- ambient
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- sustained and washy
- Lead instrument
- a lead synth
- Lead style
- improvising over the changes
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- percussive detail
- Secondary focus
- melodic lead
- Space
- an intimate dry space
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
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.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Boards of Canada. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.