Desafinado by João Gilberto
Desafinado by João Gilberto runs at 78 BPM in the key of F# minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 78 BPM
- Key
- F# minor
- Length
- 4:13
- Genre
- jazz
- Mood
- tender
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A tender jazz track blending afrobeats with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 78 BPM. The low end is fretless bass playing root-note anchored, under hand percussion with a rimshot-forward snare and sizzling cymbals. Acoustic guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows AABA. A warm male vocal delivers a restrained and conversational performance. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on simple triad chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- fretless bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 78
- Chords
- simple triad
- Cymbals
- sizzling cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- jazz
- Second genre
- afrobeats
- Harmonic instrument
- acoustic guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- tender
- Percussion
- hand percussion
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- rimshot-forward
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- AABA
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
- Vocal style
- restrained and conversational
- Vocal
- a warm 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 João Gilberto. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.