Song tempo & key

While We Danced at the Mardi Gras — Pete Fountain

“While We Danced at the Mardi Gras” by Pete Fountain (1959) has a measured tempo of 125.3 BPM and is in F major.

125BPM
F
F major · Camelot 7B
62.6 / 250.6
half / double time
2:26
length

What dance fits “While We Danced at the Mardi Gras”?

How to count it

At 125 BPM one beat lasts 479 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 31.3 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 41.8.

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