Song tempo & key

Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues — Skip James

“Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues” by Skip James (1990) has a measured tempo of 163.1 BPM and is in A# major.

163BPM
A#
A# major · Camelot 6B
81.5 / 326.2
half / double time
2:54
length

What dance fits “Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues”?

How to count it

At 163 BPM one beat lasts 368 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 40.8 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 54.4.

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