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Teddy Picker
Teddy Picker is in A minor at 150.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
150 BPM · Allegromedian of 131 analyses · 150.3–150.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 398.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.52dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.956Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.369Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 150.4 BPM one beat lasts 398.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.7 ms and a dotted eighth 299.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 300.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 cents above 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 2.52 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 0.956 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 150 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1595.7 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 797.9 | 1.25 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 598.4 | 1.67 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 398.9 | 2.51 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 266 | 3.76 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 299.2 | 3.34 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 199.5 | 5.01 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 133 | 7.52 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 149.6 | 6.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99.7 | 10.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.5 | 15.04 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.9 | 20.05 |
Half time 75.2 BPM · double time 300.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (398.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Kick It OutHeartA minor150BPM
- Sun KingThe BeatlesA minor151BPM
- Black PantherCrystal CastlesA minor150BPM
- Hidden PlaceBjörkA minor150BPM
- New ProgramCurren$y feat. Young RoddyA minor151BPM
- Take It as It ComesThe DoorsA minor149BPM
- Black HoneyThriceA minor152BPM
- PanicBackstreet BoysA minor152BPM
- I Feel You3 Doors DownA minor152BPM
- Declare IndependenceBjörkA minor149BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 150 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 150 BPMA minor at 150–159 BPMArctic Monkeys
MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id d0b676e6-471d-42a5-8d26-11a4580c161d.