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' Cello Song by Nick Drake

' Cello Song by Nick Drake runs at 118 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
118 BPM
Key
A# major
Length
4:45
Genre
folk
Mood
serene
Vocals
Instrumental

Suno prompt

A serene folk track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 118 BPM. The low end is upright bass playing root-note anchored, under hand percussion with a rimshot-forward snare and sparse dark cymbals. Acoustic guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A plucked acoustic guitar leads, building through repetition. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a slapback delay on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on extended seventh chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.

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What the analysis found

Bass instrument
upright bass
Bassline style
root-note anchored
Tempo
118
Chords
extended seventh
Cymbals
sparse dark cymbals
Energy
high
Atmosphere
calm and settled
Genre
folk
Harmonic instrument
acoustic guitar
Harmonic style
fingerpicked
Lead instrument
a plucked acoustic guitar
Lead style
building through repetition
Mixing style
lo-fi and saturated
Mood
serene
Percussion
hand percussion
Rhythmic style
broken-beat
Snare
rimshot-forward
Sonic focus
harmonic warmth
Secondary focus
atmospheric space
Space
a slapback 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 Nick Drake. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.

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