Drift Away by Lionel Petersen Song Details

Lionel Petersen's ' "Drift Away" was released on its scheduled release date, March 3, 1976. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:37, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. There are a total of 10 in the song's album "Soul Brother". In this album, this song's track order is #5. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from South Africa. Drift Away is unknown right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Drift Away by Lionel Petersen having a BPM of 79 with a half-time of 40 BPM and a double-time of 158 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) 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 is in the music key of B Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-9.901 dB
Acousticness
3%
Danceability
55%
Energy
49%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
77%

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ISRC
ZAC032200967
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records