Song tempo & key

When My First Wife Left Me — John Lee Hooker

“When My First Wife Left Me” by John Lee Hooker (1996) has a measured tempo of 163.9 BPM and is in C# minor.

164BPM
C#m
C# minor · Camelot 12A
82.0 / 327.8
half / double time
4:09
length

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How to count it

At 164 BPM one beat lasts 366 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 41.0 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 54.6.

Tempo is the median of 2 analyzed recordings of this song (they ranged over 16.9 BPM).

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