Recitation By Hank Ballard by James Brown Song Details

James Brown's ' "Recitation By Hank Ballard" was released on its scheduled release date, November 20, 1972. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:54, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in James Brown's "Get On The Good Foot" album is number 5 out of 14. Recitation By Hank Ballard is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Recitation By Hank Ballard by James Brown to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 89 BPM, a half-time of 44BPM, and a double-time of 178 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. Activities such as, yoga or pilates, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of D♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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