Time's A Wastin by Erykah Badu
Time's A Wastin by Erykah Badu runs at 75 BPM in the key of A major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 75 BPM
- Key
- A major
- Length
- 6:41
- Genre
- soul
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A brooding soul track with high energy and a swung feel at 75 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and sparse dark cymbals. Electric piano carries the harmony, block chords. The arrangement follows verse-chorus with a bridge. A full-voiced female vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the vocal. Mixed in a clean and spacious style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on chromatic and shifting 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
- 75
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- soul
- Harmonic instrument
- electric piano
- Harmonic style
- block chords
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- verse-chorus with a bridge
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a full-voiced female 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.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Erykah Badu. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.