Why Walk When You Can Fly by Mary Chapin Carpenter Song Details

Mary Chapin Carpenter's 'Why Walk When You Can Fly' had a release date set for May 4, 1994. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:32, 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. There are a total of 13 in the song's album "Stones In The Road". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Why Walk When You Can Fly is below average in popularity 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

With Why Walk When You Can Fly by Mary Chapin Carpenter having a BPM of 82 with a half-time of 41 BPM and a double-time of 164 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of B Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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