Song tempo & key

Shake It Baby — John Lee Hooker

“Shake It Baby” by John Lee Hooker (1966) has a measured tempo of 84.3 BPM and is in E major.

84BPM
E
E major · Camelot 12B
42.1 / 168.6
half / double time
4:22
length

What dance fits “Shake It Baby”?

How to count it

At 84 BPM one beat lasts 712 milliseconds. In 4/4 that is 21.1 bars per minute; in 3/4 it is 28.1.

Tempo is the median of 2 analyzed recordings of this song.

Similar-tempo songs

More by John Lee Hooker

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