Bad Detective by New York Dolls Song Details

New York Dolls's ' "Bad Detective" was released on its scheduled release date, May 10, 1974. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:39, 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 New York Dolls's "In Too Much Too Soon" album is number 8 out of 10. In terms of popularity, Bad Detective 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 Bad Detective by New York Dolls to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 111 BPM, a half-time of 56BPM, and a double-time of 222 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is moderate. 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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