When You Believe by Whitney Houston
When You Believe by Whitney Houston runs at 125 BPM in the key of B major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 125 BPM
- Key
- B major
- Length
- 4:33
- Genre
- gospel
- Mood
- tender
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A tender gospel track blending R&B with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 125 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a clap-layered snare and shimmering open hats. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A full-voiced female vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance, joined by a full-voiced female vocal layered in close harmony. Analog hiss adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a clean and spacious style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on lush ninth and eleventh chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 125
- Chords
- lush ninth and eleventh
- Cymbals
- shimmering open hats
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- gospel
- Second genre
- R&B
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- tender
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- clap-layered
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Second vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- Vocal
- a full-voiced female vocal
- Second vocal
- a full-voiced female 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 Whitney Houston. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.