Why Not by Count Basie Song Details

Count Basie's ' "Why Not" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1952. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:31, 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 song is number 7 out of 8 in Count Basie And His Orchestra by Count Basie. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, Why Not is currently not that popular. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Why Not by Count Basie is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 93 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. This song can go great with yoga or pilates. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

F Major is the music key of this track. This also means that 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.

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