Song tempo & key

Bad Life Blues — Buddy Guy

“Bad Life Blues” by Buddy Guy (2003) has a measured tempo of 81.2 BPM and is in F minor.

81BPM
Fm
F minor · Camelot 4A
40.6 / 162.4
half / double time
3:44
length

What dance fits “Bad Life Blues”?

How to count it

At 81 BPM one beat lasts 739 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 20.3 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 27.1.

Tempo is the median of 2 analyzed recordings of this song.

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Measured by AcousticBrainz · recording on MusicBrainz (CC0). Check the tempo by ear with our tap tempo tool.