How to Be Dumb by Elvis Costello Song Details

Elvis Costello's ' "How to Be Dumb" was released on its scheduled release date, May 14, 1991. This song is quite longer than the average track at 5 minutes and 13 seconds. With that being said, this track is also considered explicit and may be offensive to some people. The track order of this song in Elvis Costello's "Mighty Like A Rose" album is number 3 out of 14. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, How to Be Dumb is currently not that popular. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of How to Be Dumb by Elvis Costello to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 98 BPM, a half-time of 49BPM, and a double-time of 196 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. 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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