What They Do by The Roots Song Details

The Roots's ' "What They Do" was released on its scheduled release date, September 24, 1996. This song is quite longer than the average track at 5 minutes and 57 seconds. With that being said, this track is also considered explicit and may be offensive to some people. The track order of this song in The Roots's "Illadelph Halflife" album is number 8 out of 20. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, What They Do is currently fairly popular. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of What They Do by The Roots to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 93 BPM, a half-time of 46BPM, and a double-time of 186 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. Activities such as, yoga or pilates, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of C Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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