Bush · Sixteen Stone
Machinehead
Machinehead is in A major at 112.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 185 analyses · 112.4–112.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 185people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 533.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.86dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.912Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.033Essentia'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
185 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 185 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.5 BPM one beat lasts 533.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.3 ms and a dotted eighth 400 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 225. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 2.86 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 0.912 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 113 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2133.3 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1066.7 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 800 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 533.3 | 1.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 355.6 | 2.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 400 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 266.7 | 3.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.8 | 5.63 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 200 | 5 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.3 | 7.5 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88.9 | 11.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.7 | 15 |
Half time 56.3 BPM · double time 225 BPM. Every row is one beat (533.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Sick AgainLed ZeppelinA major113BPM
- Rock ’n’ Roll FantasyBad CompanyA major112BPM
- Rusty CageJohnny CashA major112BPM
- Can’t Stop This Thing We StartedBryan AdamsA major113BPM
- Gimme MoreBritney SpearsA major113BPM
- And I Love HerThe BeatlesA major113BPM
- All NightChance the Rapper feat. Knox FortuneA major112BPM
- LovefoolThe CardigansA major112BPM
- Fast CarJonas Blue featuring DakotaA major114BPM
- Don’t You (Forget About Me)Simple MindsA major111BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 113 BPMA major at 110–119 BPMBush
MusicBrainz collapses 40 recording ids into this one. Recording id af3f426f-db2a-4d72-8ec1-e6c28d0314b7.