A Gift by Lou Reed Song Details

Lou Reed's ' "A Gift" was released on its scheduled release date, 1976. 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. This song is part of X2 (Coney Island Baby/Walk On The Wild Side) by Lou Reed. The song's track number on the album is #5 out of 25 tracks. Based on our data, United States was the country where this track was produced or recorded. A Gift is unknown right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

Since A Gift by Lou Reed has a tempo of 80 beats per a minute, the tempo markings of this song would be Andante (at a walking pace). With A Gift being at 80 BPM, the half-time would be 40 BPM with a double-time of 160 BPM.In addition, we consider the tempo speed to be pretty slow for this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, 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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