Song tempo & key

The Waterfront — John Lee Hooker

“The Waterfront” by John Lee Hooker (1966) has a measured tempo of 137.8 BPM and is in C# minor.

138BPM
C#m
C# minor · Camelot 12A
68.9 / 275.6
half / double time
5:11
length

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How to count it

At 138 BPM one beat lasts 435 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 34.5 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 45.9.

Tempo is the median of 2 analyzed recordings of this song (they ranged over 10.4 BPM).

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