Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones runs at 158 BPM in the key of C major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 158 BPM
- Key
- C major
- Length
- 3:22
- Genre
- indie rock
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A restless indie rock track blending hard rock with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 158 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a tight and dry snare and sparse dark cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A gritty male vocal delivers a layered in close harmony performance. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a wide stereo chorus on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding vocal clarity and percussive detail, 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
- 158
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sparse dark cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- indie rock
- Second genre
- hard rock
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- tight and dry
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- percussive detail
- Space
- a wide stereo chorus
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
- Vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- 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 The Rolling Stones. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.
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