Tough Guys by REO Speedwagon Song Details

REO Speedwagon's ' "Tough Guys" was released on its scheduled release date, 1980. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:49, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The track order of this song in REO Speedwagon's "Hi Infidelity (30th Anniversary Edition)" album is number 6 out of 19. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Tough Guys's popularity is 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

We consider the tempo marking of Tough Guys by REO Speedwagon to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 135 BPM, a half-time of 68BPM, and a double-time of 270 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of G Major. 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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