Bongo Man by Jimmy Cliff Song Details

Jimmy Cliff's ' "Bongo Man" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 2004. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:05, 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 Jimmy Cliff's "Goodbye Yesterday" album is number 5 out of 9. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Bongo Man is currently below average in popularity. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Bongo Man by Jimmy Cliff to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 99 BPM, a half-time of 50BPM, and a double-time of 198 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of C Major. 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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