Playing the Game by Gentle Giant Song Details

Gentle Giant's ' "Playing the Game" was released on its scheduled release date, July 18, 2014. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. There are a total of 10 in the song's album "The Power and the Glory (Mixed by Steven Wilson)". In this album, this song's track order is #4. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. In terms of popularity, Playing the Game is currently below average in popularity. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

With Playing the Game by Gentle Giant having a BPM of 109 with a half-time of 54 BPM and a double-time of 218 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Moderato (at a moderate speed) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall moderate tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music 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
-15.74 dB
Acousticness
7%
Danceability
60%
Energy
41%
Instrumentalness
41%
Liveness
12%
Loudness
74%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
64%

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ISRC
GB5XG1400014
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records