Working Man by Rush
Working Man by Rush runs at 154 BPM in the key of E major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
This analysis has not been checked by a person. Tempo, key, and genre come straight from the software, so treat them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Measured
- Tempo
- 154 BPM
- Key
- E major
- Length
- 7:10
- Genre
- hard rock
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A restless hard rock track blending post-rock with explosive energy and a swung feel at 154 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a cracking and compressed snare and a ride-driven pattern. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A gritty male vocal delivers a raw and unpolished performance. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the vocal. Mixed in a dense and compressed style, foregrounding vocal clarity and low-end weight, 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
- 154
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- a ride-driven pattern
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- hard rock
- Second genre
- post-rock
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- dense and compressed
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- cracking and compressed
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- low-end weight
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
- Vocal style
- raw and unpolished
- Vocal
- a gritty 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 Rush. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.