African Sunset by Miriam Makeba Song Details

Miriam Makeba's ' "African Sunset" was released on its scheduled release date, May 1, 2012. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:46, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. This song is part of Welela by Miriam Makeba. The song's track number on the album is #2 out of 10 tracks. Based on our data, South Africa was the country where this track was produced or recorded. African Sunset is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

Since African Sunset by Miriam Makeba has a tempo of 81 beats per a minute, the tempo markings of this song would be Andante (at a walking pace). With African Sunset being at 81 BPM, the half-time would be 40 BPM with a double-time of 162 BPM.In addition, we consider the tempo speed to be pretty slow for this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of G Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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