Grateful Dead songs by BPM
TempoTunes has 4,248 Grateful Dead songs with verified tempo, and most of them live between 110 and 120 BPM. Here is the catalog by pace: something to wind down to, something to move to, and something to run to.
Where Grateful Dead's music lives
Chill: 60 to 90 BPM
568 songs at this pace: wind-downs, slow burns, and late-night listening.
Death Don't Have No Mercy
84 BPM (1967)
China Cat Sunflower
89 BPM (1969)
Cosmic Charlie
83 BPM (1969)
Doin' That Rag
85 BPM (1969)
What's Become of the Baby
80 BPM (1969)
Black Peter
73 BPM (1970)
Easy Wind
85 BPM (1970)
High Time
85 BPM (1970)
Steady: 90 to 120 BPM
1,680 songs at this pace: head-nod grooves and walking pace.
Viola Lee Blues
119 BPM (1967)
Morning Dew
115 BPM (1967)
Overseas Stomy
112 BPM (1967)
New Potato Caboose
119 BPM (1968)
Alligator
109 BPM (1968)
That's It for the Other One, Pts. I-IV
99 BPM (1968)
Dupree's Diamond Blues
91 BPM (1969)
Turn on Your Love Light
105 BPM (1969)
Drive: 120 to 150 BPM
1,474 songs at this pace: dance-floor and workout energy.
The Golden Road
146 BPM (1967)
Good Morning Little School Girl
128 BPM (1967)
Good Mornin' Little School Girl
127 BPM (1967)
Sittin' On Top of the World
126 BPM (1967)
Dark Star
139 BPM (1968)
Born Cross-Eyed
135 BPM (1968)
Caution
145 BPM (1968)
That's It For the Other One
133 BPM (1968)
Fast: 150 to 200 BPM
526 songs at this pace: running cadence and full-sprint songs.
Cream Puff War
150 BPM (1967)
One More Saturday Night
161 BPM (1967)
St. Stephen
155 BPM (1969)
Dire Wolf
153 BPM (1970)
Easy Wind
164 BPM (1970)
I Know You Rider
165 BPM (1972)
Chinatown Shuffle
150 BPM (1972)
Dark Star
158 BPM (1972)
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