The Soldiering Life by The Decemberists Song Details

The Decemberists's 'The Soldiering Life' had a release date set for 2003. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:48, 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 The Decemberists's "Her Majesty The Decemberists" album is number 7 out of 11. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, The Soldiering Life's popularity is not that popular right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Soldiering Life by The Decemberists to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 133 BPM, a half-time of 66BPM, and a double-time of 266 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 A Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.011 dB
Acousticness
26%
Danceability
51%
Energy
36%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
87%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
35%

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ISRC
USKRS0337507
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records