The Reaper by Steve Vai Song Details

Steve Vai's 'The Reaper' had a release date set for March 15, 2011. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:25. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. There are a total of 32 in the song's album "The Essential Steve Vai". In this album, this song's track order is #11. In terms of popularity, The Reaper is currently below average in popularity. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

With The Reaper by Steve Vai having a BPM of 96 with a half-time of 48 BPM and a double-time of 192 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, 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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Popularity
Loudness
-4.777 dB
Acousticness
2%
Danceability
32%
Energy
92%
Instrumentalness
76%
Liveness
25%
Loudness
92%
Speechiness
7%
Valence
22%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records