Giving Up the Gun by Vampire Weekend Song Details

Vampire Weekend's ' "Giving Up the Gun" was released on its scheduled release date, January 11, 2010. 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 song is number 8 out of 10 in Contra by Vampire Weekend. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Giving Up the Gun's popularity is average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Giving Up the Gun by Vampire Weekend is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 134 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

The music key of this track is A Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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