Hard Times by Eric Clapton Song Details

Eric Clapton's ' "Hard Times" was released on its scheduled release date, November 7, 1989. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:14. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The track order of this song in Eric Clapton's "Journeyman" album is number 5 out of 12. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Hard Times is currently below average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Hard Times by Eric Clapton to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 96 BPM, a half-time of 48BPM, and a double-time of 192 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

G Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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