Walking On Air by King Crimson
Walking On Air by King Crimson runs at 81 BPM in the key of E major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 81 BPM
- Key
- E major
- Length
- 4:38
- Genre
- post-rock
- Mood
- tender
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A tender post-rock track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 81 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a rimshot-forward snare and sparse dark cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. An electric guitar 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 atmospheric space, built on suspended 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
- 81
- Chords
- suspended
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- post-rock
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Lead instrument
- an electric guitar
- Lead style
- building through repetition
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- tender
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- rimshot-forward
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- 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 King Crimson. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.