Song tempo & key

Big Bad John — Gunter Gabriel

“Big Bad John” by Gunter Gabriel (1973) has a measured tempo of 95.8 BPM and is in C# minor.

96BPM
C#m
C# minor · Camelot 12A
47.9 / 191.6
half / double time
2:32
length

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How to count it

At 96 BPM one beat lasts 626 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 23.9 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 31.9.

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