TempoPeek

AC/DC · T.N.T.

Live Wire

Live Wire is in E minor at 132.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

133 BPM · Allegromedian of 254 analyses · 132.7–133.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
80%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
254people who ran the extractor
One beat
451.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
432.2Hz · -31 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.75dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.908Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.163Essentia'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

254 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 254 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 132.9 BPM one beat lasts 451.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.9 ms and a dotted eighth 338.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 265.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 432.2 Hz, which is 31 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 3.75 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 0.908 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 E 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 133 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41805.90.55
Half note2902.91.11
Dotted quarter1.5677.21.48
Quarter note (one beat)1451.52.22
Quarter triplet0.6673013.32
Dotted eighth0.75338.62.95
Eighth note0.5225.74.43
Eighth triplet0.333150.56.65
Dotted sixteenth0.375169.35.91
Sixteenth note0.25112.98.86
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.213.29
Thirty-second note0.12556.417.72

Half time 66.5 BPM · double time 265.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (451.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Welcome to the MachinePink FloydE minor133BPM
  2. LuckyRadioheadE minor133BPM
  3. Pop StyleDrakeE minor133BPM
  4. VamosPixiesE minor133BPM
  5. Same Old Song and DanceAerosmithE minor133BPM
  6. About a GirlNirvanaE minor133BPM
  7. Gotta Get AwayOffspringE minor132BPM
  8. Suzie QCreedence Clearwater RevivalE minor132BPM
  9. LowColdplayE minor132BPM
  10. High by the BeachLana Del ReyE minor132BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 133 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMAC/DC

MusicBrainz collapses 157 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2dee8cd9-9d41-4628-9dcc-c9dea3f807a4.