How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? by Ry Cooder Song Details

On January 1, 1970, the song "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" was released by Ry Cooder. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:46. This song does not appear to have any foul language. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?'s duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. There are a total of 11 in the song's album "Ry Cooder". In this album, this song's track order is #6. Based on our statistics, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?'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.

BPM and Tempo

With How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? by Ry Cooder having a BPM of 123 with a half-time of 62 BPM and a double-time of 246 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.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of B♭ Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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