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Jailbreak
Jailbreak is in A minor at 129.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
129 BPM · Allegromedian of 152 analyses · 129.3–132.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 58%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 152people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 463.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.07dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.83Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.061Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 58% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 61% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 129.3 to 132.5 BPM.
At 129.4 BPM one beat lasts 463.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.9 ms and a dotted eighth 347.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 258.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.07 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.83 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in A minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with A minor
Each of these differs from A minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 129 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1854.7 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 927.4 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 695.5 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 463.7 | 2.16 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 309.1 | 3.24 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 347.8 | 2.88 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 231.8 | 4.31 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 154.6 | 6.47 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 173.9 | 5.75 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.9 | 8.63 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.3 | 12.94 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58 | 17.25 |
Half time 64.7 BPM · double time 258.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (463.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rock the CasbahThe ClashA minor129BPM
- Space Truckin’Deep PurpleA minor129BPM
- Rock and a Hard PlaceThe Rolling StonesA minor129BPM
- Double VisionForeignerA minor130BPM
- Susie QCreedence Clearwater RevivalA minor129BPM
- The Biz vs. The NugeBeastie BoysA minor129BPM
- Conversations With My 13 Year Old SelfP!nkA minor129BPM
- Human After All (Alter Ego remix)Daft PunkA minor129BPM
- Listen Through MeThriceA minor129BPM
- SteinholzApparatA minor130BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 129 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMAC/DC
MusicBrainz collapses 53 recording ids into this one. Recording id c8811aa4-cb3a-4692-be0b-ecb3a4e9a736.