Great Expectations by Elbow Song Details

"Great Expectations" by Elbow had its release date on January 1, 2005. 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 Elbow's "Leaders Of The Free World" album is number 10 out of 11. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Great Expectations's popularity is below average in popularity right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Great Expectations by Elbow to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 124 BPM, a half-time of 62BPM, and a double-time of 248 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 3/4.

Music Key

C Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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