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Life in Technicolor ii
Life in Technicolor ii is in A major at 131.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
131 BPM · Allegromedian of 142 analyses · 131.2–131.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 142people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 457.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.16dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.938Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.142Essentia'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
142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 131.2 BPM one beat lasts 457.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.3 ms and a dotted eighth 343 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 262.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.16 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 0.938 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 131 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1829.3 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 914.6 | 1.09 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 686 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 457.3 | 2.19 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 304.9 | 3.28 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 343 | 2.92 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 228.7 | 4.37 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 152.4 | 6.56 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 171.5 | 5.83 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.3 | 8.75 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.2 | 13.12 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.2 | 17.49 |
Half time 65.6 BPM · double time 262.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (457.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Greatest Love of AllWhitney HoustonA major131BPM
- Stone EyesMeat PuppetsA major131BPM
- Think It OverThe Crickets feat. Buddy HollyA major131BPM
- Criminal WorldDavid BowieA major131BPM
- Let’s GoThe CarsA major131BPM
- Tiny MontgomeryBob Dylan & The BandA major132BPM
- Who Loves the SunThe Velvet UndergroundA major131BPM
- Maxwell’s Silver HammerThe BeatlesA major132BPM
- Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)Nine Inch NailsA major132BPM
- F.I.N.E.AerosmithA major132BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 131 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMColdplay
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id df254587-24f2-4b13-9a67-292acf1a2aca.