Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am by Fela Kuti
Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am by Fela Kuti runs at 143 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
- 143 BPM
- Key
- C# major
- Length
- 12:06
- Genre
- funk
- Mood
- triumphant
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A triumphant funk track blending afrobeats with high energy and a swung feel at 143 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and sizzling cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A gritty male vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding melodic lead and vocal clarity, 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
- 143
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sizzling cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- funk
- Second genre
- afrobeats
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- triumphant
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- melodic lead
- Secondary focus
- vocal clarity
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a gritty 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.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Fela Kuti. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.