When You've Got What It Takes by Carpenters Song Details

Carpenters's 'When You've Got What It Takes' had a release date set for January 1, 1981. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:40, 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 Carpenters's "Made In America" album is number 4 out of 10. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, When You've Got What It Takes's popularity is 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 When You've Got What It Takes by Carpenters to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 142 BPM, a half-time of 71BPM, and a double-time of 284 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, jogging or cycling, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

F Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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