The Weight by The Staple Singers Song Details

The Staple Singers's ' "The Weight" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1968. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. There are a total of 11 in the song's album "Soul Folk In Action". In this album, this song's track order is #5. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. The Weight is average in popularity right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

With The Weight by The Staple Singers having a BPM of 76 with a half-time of 38 BPM and a double-time of 152 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Adagio (slowly with great expression) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of B♭ Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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