Song tempo & key

Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar — Norman Blake & Tony Rice

“Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar” by Norman Blake & Tony Rice (1987) has a measured tempo of 117.3 BPM and is in C# major.

117BPM
C#
C# major · Camelot 3B
58.6 / 234.6
half / double time
3:33
length

What dance fits “Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar”?

How to count it

At 117 BPM one beat lasts 512 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 29.3 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 39.1.

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