Take the "A" Train by Duke Ellington, Count Basie Song Details

Duke Ellington, Count Basie's ' "Take the "A" Train" was released on its scheduled release date, 1961. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:45, 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 3 out of 15 in First Time! The Count Meets The Duke by Duke Ellington, Count Basie. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. The popularity of Take the "A" Train is currently below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Take the "A" Train by Duke Ellington, Count Basie is Vivace (lively and fast), since this song has a tempo of 163 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

D♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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