Tear-Stained Letter by Richard Thompson Song Details

Richard Thompson's ' "Tear-Stained Letter" was released on its scheduled release date, 1983. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The track order of this song in Richard Thompson's "Hand Of Kindness" album is number 1 out of 9. The popularity of Tear-Stained Letter is currently below 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 Tear-Stained Letter by Richard Thompson to be Presto (very, very fast) because the track has a tempo of 183 BPM, a half-time of 92BPM, and a double-time of 366 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of D Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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