TempoPeek

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Mardy Bum

Mardy Bum is in D major at 111.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 127 analyses · 111.5–111.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
127people who ran the extractor
One beat
537.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.66dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.855Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.226Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 111.6 BPM one beat lasts 537.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 134.4 ms and a dotted eighth 403.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 223.2. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.66 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 0.855 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 D 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 112 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42150.50.47
Half note21075.30.93
Dotted quarter1.5806.51.24
Quarter note (one beat)1537.61.86
Quarter triplet0.667358.42.79
Dotted eighth0.75403.22.48
Eighth note0.5268.83.72
Eighth triplet0.333179.25.58
Dotted sixteenth0.375201.64.96
Sixteenth note0.25134.47.44
Sixteenth triplet0.16789.611.16
Thirty-second note0.12567.214.88

Half time 55.8 BPM · double time 223.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (537.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. KissPrinceD major111BPM
  2. Get DownAudio AdrenalineD major112BPM
  3. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine AnymoreThe Walker BrothersD major111BPM
  4. Robot RockDaft PunkD major112BPM
  5. Everybody Wants to Rule the WorldTears for FearsD major112BPM
  6. Wherever You Will GoThe CallingD major112BPM
  7. CoolGwen StefaniD major112BPM
  8. My Old ManJoni MitchellD major112BPM
  9. Along Comes a WomanChicagoD major112BPM
  10. LionsDire StraitsD major112BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 112 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMArctic Monkeys

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id c2705dfc-83bf-4838-bdcb-07734e71c7d7.