Gaucho by Steely Dan Song Details

Steely Dan's ' "Gaucho" was released on its scheduled release date, November 21, 1980. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:31, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Steely Dan's "Gaucho" album is number 4 out of 7. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Gaucho's popularity is average in popularity right now. 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 Gaucho by Steely Dan to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 125 BPM, a half-time of 62BPM, and a double-time of 250 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 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of F Major. 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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