Hard Times by James Taylor Song Details

James Taylor's ' "Hard Times" was released on its scheduled release date, 1981. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:11. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The song is number 1 out of 11 in Dad Loves His Work by James Taylor. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Hard Times is below average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Hard Times by James Taylor is Lento (slowly), since this song has a tempo of 59 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of B Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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