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Road by Nick Drake

Road by Nick Drake runs at 75 BPM in the key of G major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.

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Measured

Tempo
75 BPM
Key
G major
Length
1:59
Genre
folk
Mood
serene
Vocals
Instrumental

Suno prompt

A serene folk track blending folk with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 75 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 intro-verse-chorus-outro. A plucked acoustic guitar leads, carrying the melody in long phrases. 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 chromatic and shifting 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
75
Chords
chromatic and shifting
Cymbals
sizzling cymbals
Energy
high
Atmosphere
calm and settled
Genre
folk
Second genre
folk
Harmonic instrument
acoustic guitar
Harmonic style
fingerpicked
Lead instrument
a plucked acoustic guitar
Lead style
carrying the melody in long phrases
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 dub-style tape delay
Structure
intro-verse-chorus-outro
Textural detail
subtle bitcrush

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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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