Sweetback by Herb Ellis & The Ray Brown Sextet Song Details

Herb Ellis & The Ray Brown Sextet's ' "Sweetback" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1975. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:25, 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 Herb Ellis & The Ray Brown Sextet's "Hot Tracks" album is number 8 out of 8. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Sweetback's popularity is unknown 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 Sweetback by Herb Ellis & The Ray Brown Sextet to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 145 BPM, a half-time of 72BPM, and a double-time of 290 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, jogging or cycling, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of F♯ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 2B. So, the perfect camelot match for 2B would be either 2B or 3A. While, 3B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 11B and a high energy boost can either be 4B or 9B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 2A or 1B will give you a low energy drop, 5B would be a moderate one, and 12B or 7B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 11A allows you to change the mood.

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