TempoPeek

Bob Dylan & The Band · The Basement Tapes

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere is in G major at 115.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 145 analyses · 115.7–115.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
74%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
145people who ran the extractor
One beat
518.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.9Hz · -20 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.44dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.173Essentia'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

145 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 74% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 145 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 115.7 BPM one beat lasts 518.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.6 ms and a dotted eighth 388.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 231.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.9 Hz, which is 20 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 3.44 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 0.925 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 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 116 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42074.30.48
Half note21037.20.96
Dotted quarter1.5777.91.29
Quarter note (one beat)1518.61.93
Quarter triplet0.667345.72.89
Dotted eighth0.75388.92.57
Eighth note0.5259.33.86
Eighth triplet0.333172.95.79
Dotted sixteenth0.375194.55.14
Sixteenth note0.25129.67.71
Sixteenth triplet0.16786.411.57
Thirty-second note0.12564.815.43

Half time 57.9 BPM · double time 231.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (518.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Major MinusColdplayG major116BPM
  2. If Leaving Me Is EasyPhil CollinsG major116BPM
  3. Blood BrothersBruce SpringsteenG major116BPM
  4. The WindCat StevensG major115BPM
  5. Broken ArrowsAviciiG major115BPM
  6. Tones of HomeBlind MelonG major115BPM
  7. Brass MonkeyBeastie BoysG major116BPM
  8. JamMichael JacksonG major116BPM
  9. Private DancerTina TurnerG major116BPM
  10. Pink HousesJohn Cougar MellencampG major115BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 116 BPMG major at 110–119 BPMBob Dylan & The Band

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id f6a12766-c0bf-4f2d-932b-195fd607cf13.