Skateaway - Dire Straits Information

Dire Straits made "Skateaway" available on October 17, 1980. Skateaway is about six minutes long, preciously at 6:18, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Dire Straits's "Making Movies" album is number 3 out of 7. In terms of popularity, Skateaway is currently average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

Skateaway BPM

We consider the tempo marking of Skateaway by Dire Straits to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 116 BPM, a half-time of 58BPM, and a double-time of 232 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is moderate. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Skateaway Key

G Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.