Taboo by Santana Song Details

Santana's ' "Taboo" was released on its scheduled release date, 1971. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:34, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. There are a total of 24 in the song's album "Santana III - Legacy Edition". In this album, this song's track order is #3. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, Taboo's popularity is below average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Taboo by Santana having a BPM of 138 with a half-time of 69 BPM and a double-time of 276 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of B♭ Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-12.713 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
43%
Energy
79%
Instrumentalness
82%
Liveness
74%
Loudness
79%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
70%

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ISRC
USSM17100229
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records