Take the 'A' Train by Duke Ellington Song Details

Duke Ellington's ' "Take the 'A' Train" was released on its scheduled release date, 1948. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. The song is number 3 out of 13 in Ellington Uptown (Expanded Edition) by Duke Ellington. 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 not that popular 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 is Vivace (lively and fast), since this song has a tempo of 168 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

G Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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