Helplessly Hoping by Richie Havens Song Details

Richie Havens's ' "Helplessly Hoping" was released on its scheduled release date, 1972. Since This song 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. The track order of this song in Richie Havens's "Live At The Cellar Door and at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium" album is number 3 out of 12. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Helplessly Hoping is currently below average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Helplessly Hoping by Richie Havens to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 111 BPM, a half-time of 56BPM, and a double-time of 222 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is moderate. 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 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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