Quimbara by Celia Cruz
Quimbara by Celia Cruz runs at 125 BPM in the key of E minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 125 BPM
- Key
- E minor
- Length
- 4:53
- Genre
- afrobeats
- Mood
- triumphant
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A triumphant afrobeats track with explosive energy and a syncopated feel at 125 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under hand percussion with a tight and dry snare and sizzling cymbals. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, rhythmic stabs. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A trumpet leads, building through repetition. Analog hiss adds texture, with a wide stereo chorus on the lead. Mixed in a dense and compressed style, foregrounding rhythmic drive and low-end weight, 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
- 125
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sizzling cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- afrobeats
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- rhythmic stabs
- Lead instrument
- a trumpet
- Lead style
- building through repetition
- Mixing style
- dense and compressed
- Mood
- triumphant
- Percussion
- hand percussion
- Rhythmic style
- syncopated
- Snare
- tight and dry
- Sonic focus
- rhythmic drive
- Secondary focus
- low-end weight
- Space
- a wide stereo chorus
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
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 Celia Cruz. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.