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Three Hours by Nick Drake

Three Hours by Nick Drake runs at 120 BPM in the key of D major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.

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Measured

Tempo
120 BPM
Key
D major
Length
6:13
Genre
folk
Mood
serene
Vocals
Instrumental

Suno prompt

A serene folk track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 120 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 loop-based with dynamic drops. An electric 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 simple triad 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
120
Chords
simple triad
Cymbals
sparse dark cymbals
Energy
high
Atmosphere
calm and settled
Genre
folk
Harmonic instrument
acoustic guitar
Harmonic style
fingerpicked
Lead instrument
an electric 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
loop-based with dynamic drops
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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