Prologue by Gentle Giant Song Details

Gentle Giant's ' "Prologue" was released on its scheduled release date, April 1, 1972. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 6:12, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. There are a total of 6 in the song's album "Three Friends". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Prologue's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Prologue by Gentle Giant having a BPM of 122 with a half-time of 61 BPM and a double-time of 244 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 is in the music key of F Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-19.368 dB
Acousticness
4%
Danceability
59%
Energy
22%
Instrumentalness
75%
Liveness
30%
Loudness
68%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
61%

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ISRC
GBUM70702879
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records