Take the “Tempo / time signature challenge”, using Blueberry Hill.


Here is a simple challenge, where you are asked to listen to a piece of music (Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill). This piece of music is notated in different time signatures, sometimes 12/8, sometimes 4/4.(and could be notated in 6/8 too)

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The simple questions are:

1. what is the approximate tempo of this recording
if it was notated in the following time signatures:

12/8 time sig, tempo is _____ bpm
6/8 time sig. tempo is _____ bpm
4/4 time sig, tempo is ______ bpm

Of course the tempo will vary slightly in the live performance, we are not concerned with that as we are just looking for the approximate tempo in the first 8 bars or so.
Note the answers are expected to be the musically correct answer, ie) What Leonard Bernstein (and other educated musicians) would agree that the tempo is. Not what Program X says it is.


2. (Y/N) the DAW I use is _________ and I was/wasn’t able to load the audio and set the tempos above in my DAW and the barlines (approximately) matched.
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Last edited by PeterGannon; 05/14/24 08:57 PM.
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Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.