Doing What I Can by Raphael Saadiq Song Details

Raphael Saadiq's ' "Doing What I Can" was released on its scheduled release date, December 16, 1999. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:19, 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 Various Artists's "It's Showtime RnB" album is number 15 out of 19. On top of that, France appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Doing What I Can is currently not that popular. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Doing What I Can by Raphael Saadiq to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 96 BPM, a half-time of 48BPM, and a double-time of 192 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical 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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