South Of The Border by Lou Donaldson Song Details

Lou Donaldson's ' "South Of The Border" was released on its scheduled release date, 1961. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:30, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Lou Donaldson's "Gravy Train" album is number 2 out of 9. In terms of popularity, South Of The Border is currently not that popular. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of South Of The Border by Lou Donaldson to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 97 BPM, a half-time of 48BPM, and a double-time of 194 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of E♭ Major. 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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