Black Sabbath · Paranoid

Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots

Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots is in G minor at 136.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 302 analyses · 136.2–136.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
66%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
302people who ran the extractor
One beat
440.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.89Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.267Essentia'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

302 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 66% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 302 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 136.3 BPM one beat lasts 440.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.1 ms and a dotted eighth 330.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 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 3.02 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 0.89 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 G 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 G minor

Each of these differs from G 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41760.80.57
Half note2880.41.14
Dotted quarter1.5660.31.51
Quarter note (one beat)1440.22.27
Quarter triplet0.667293.53.41
Dotted eighth0.75330.23.03
Eighth note0.5220.14.54
Eighth triplet0.333146.76.82
Dotted sixteenth0.375165.16.06
Sixteenth note0.25110.19.09
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.413.63
Thirty-second note0.1255518.17

Half time 68.2 BPM · double time 272.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (440.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I–VPink FloydG minor136BPM
  2. SnakecharmerRage Against the MachineG minor137BPM
  3. Can I Sit Next to You GirlAC/DCG minor135BPM
  4. Forgot About DreDr. Dre featuring EminemG minor134BPM
  5. Tryin’EaglesG minor134BPM
  6. Love Don’t Live Here AnymoreMadonnaG minor140BPM
  7. Heart Full of SoulThe YardbirdsG minor141BPM
  8. My LifeDidoG minor141BPM
  9. MoondanceMichael BubléG minor141BPM
  10. Hand of DoomBlack SabbathG minor142BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 136 BPMG minor at 130–139 BPMBlack Sabbath

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id d244cc78-53af-4024-b743-4b2387dc55e0.