It's Gonna Rain, Pt. I by Steve Reich
It's Gonna Rain, Pt. I by Steve Reich runs at 150 BPM in the key of D 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
- 150 BPM
- Key
- D major
- Length
- 8:00
- Genre
- ambient
- Mood
- hypnotic
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A hypnotic ambient track blending ambient with high energy and a motorik feel at 150 BPM. The low end is upright bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a rimshot-forward snare and a ride-driven pattern. Grand piano carries the harmony, arpeggiated. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A grand piano leads, building through repetition. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding rhythmic drive and harmonic warmth, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a tense and coiled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- upright bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 150
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- a ride-driven pattern
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- ambient
- Second genre
- ambient
- Harmonic instrument
- grand piano
- Harmonic style
- arpeggiated
- Lead instrument
- a grand piano
- Lead style
- building through repetition
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- hypnotic
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- motorik
- Snare
- rimshot-forward
- Sonic focus
- rhythmic drive
- Secondary focus
- harmonic warmth
- Space
- a dub-style tape 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 Steve Reich. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.