Sweetback's Theme - Melvin Van Peebles Information

On June 1, 1971, the song "Sweetback's Theme" was released by Melvin Van Peebles. Since Sweetback's Theme is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. There are a total of 10 in the song's album "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera)". In this album, this song's track order is #4. Based on our statistics, Sweetback's Theme's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

Sweetback's Theme BPM

With Sweetback's Theme by Melvin Van Peebles having a BPM of 137 with a half-time of 68 BPM and a double-time of 274 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Sweetback's Theme Key

This song is in the music key of F Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.