I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye
I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye runs at 118 BPM in the key of D# minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 118 BPM
- Key
- D# minor
- Length
- 3:14
- Genre
- soul
- Mood
- tender
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A tender soul track blending R&B with high energy and a swung feel at 118 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a tight and dry snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A warm male vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding vocal clarity and melodic lead, 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
- 118
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- soul
- Second genre
- R&B
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- tender
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- tight and dry
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- melodic lead
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- 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 Marvin Gaye. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.