Song tempo & key

If You Can Wait — Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

“If You Can Wait” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles has a measured tempo of 118.1 BPM and is in F# major.

118BPM
F#
F# major · Camelot 2B
59.0 / 236.2
half / double time
2:45
length

What dance fits “If You Can Wait”?

How to count it

At 118 BPM one beat lasts 508 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 29.5 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 39.4.

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