The Big Ship by Brian Eno
The Big Ship by Brian Eno runs at 118 BPM in the key of C 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
- 118 BPM
- Key
- C major
- Length
- 3:02
- Genre
- ambient
- Mood
- serene
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A serene ambient track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 118 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 a slow linear build. A lead synth leads, building through repetition. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and melodic lead, built on suspended 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
- 118
- Chords
- suspended
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- ambient
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- sustained and washy
- Lead instrument
- a lead synth
- Lead style
- building through repetition
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- serene
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- melodic lead
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- a slow linear build
- 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 Brian Eno. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.