TempoPeek

Aerosmith · Get a Grip

Walk on Down

Walk on Down is in A major at 144 beats per minute.

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Tempo

144 BPM · Allegromedian of 228 analyses · 143.8–144 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
72%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
228people who ran the extractor
One beat
416.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.65dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.938Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.241Essentia'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

228 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 72% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 228 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 144 BPM one beat lasts 416.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.2 ms and a dotted eighth 312.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72 BPM, counted twice as fast 288. 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 3.65 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 0.938 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 major; 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 major

Each of these differs from A major 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 144 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41666.70.6
Half note2833.31.2
Dotted quarter1.56251.6
Quarter note (one beat)1416.72.4
Quarter triplet0.667277.83.6
Dotted eighth0.75312.53.2
Eighth note0.5208.34.8
Eighth triplet0.333138.97.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375156.36.4
Sixteenth note0.25104.29.6
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.414.4
Thirty-second note0.12552.119.2

Half time 72 BPM · double time 288 BPM. Every row is one beat (416.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Pretty VacantSex PistolsA major144BPM
  2. I’m So TiredThe BeatlesA major144BPM
  3. SeventeenSex PistolsA major144BPM
  4. Behind the WallTracy ChapmanA major144BPM
  5. I Am a MachineMeat PuppetsA major144BPM
  6. My ImmortalEvanescenceA major144BPM
  7. Telephone LineElectric Light OrchestraA major144BPM
  8. Lump SumBon IverA major144BPM
  9. Draw the LineAerosmithA major143BPM
  10. How Many More TimesLed ZeppelinA major143BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 144 BPMA major at 140–149 BPMAerosmith

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id c5507d08-a386-4449-98e3-45358e7a2f13.