Ballad For A Child
Archie Shepp
Attica Blues
3:36 January 1, 1972
BPM
81
Key
E♭ Major
Camelot
5B

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Ballad For A Child by Archie Shepp Song Details

Archie Shepp's 'Ballad For A Child' had a release date set for January 1, 1972. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:36, 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 song is number 8 out of 10 in Attica Blues by Archie Shepp. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Ballad For A Child is below average in popularity right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Ballad For A Child by Archie Shepp is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 81 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

E♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-16.46 dB
Acousticness
60%
Danceability
20%
Energy
24%
Instrumentalness
26%
Liveness
13%
Loudness
73%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
25%

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ISRC
USGR10201309
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records