Song tempo & key

Rock Around the Clock — Carl Perkins

“Rock Around the Clock” by Carl Perkins (1978) has a measured tempo of 172.3 BPM and is in E major.

172BPM
E
E major · Camelot 12B
86.2 / 344.6
half / double time
2:16
length

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How to count it

At 172 BPM one beat lasts 348 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 43.1 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 57.4.

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