Hard Times by Empires Song Details

Empires's ' "Hard Times" was released on its scheduled release date, June 12, 2012. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:20, 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. The track order of this song in Empires's "Garage Hymns" album is number 8 out of 11. The popularity of Hard Times is currently not that popular right now. The mood doesn't appear to be that danceable, but it still produces a high amount of positive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Hard Times by Empires to be Vivace (lively and fast) because the track has a tempo of 166 BPM, a half-time of 83BPM, and a double-time of 332 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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