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Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones

Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones runs at 118 BPM in the key of E major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.

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Measured

Tempo
118 BPM
Key
E major
Length
6:18
Genre
hard rock
Mood
restless
Vocals
Vocal

Suno prompt

A restless hard rock track blending blues with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 118 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a rimshot-forward snare and sizzling cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A warm male vocal delivers a rhythmic and percussive 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 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
118
Chords
chromatic and shifting
Cymbals
sizzling cymbals
Energy
explosive
Atmosphere
tense and coiled
Genre
hard rock
Second genre
blues
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
rimshot-forward
Sonic focus
vocal clarity
Secondary focus
low-end weight
Space
a wide stereo chorus
Structure
intro-verse-chorus-outro
Textural detail
subtle bitcrush
Vocal style
rhythmic and percussive
Vocal
a warm male vocal

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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 The Rolling Stones. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.

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