Cowboy Junkies · The Trinity Session

Sweet Jane

Sweet Jane is in G minor at 166.2 beats per minute.

Tempo

166 BPM · Vivacemedian of 130 analyses · 166–166.3 across the middle eight tenths

Key: G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 79%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 130people who ran the extractor
One beat: 361milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 4.78dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.365Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.073Essentia'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

130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 166.2 BPM one beat lasts 361 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.3 ms and a dotted eighth 270.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 83.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 332.4. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.78 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 0.365 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 166 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1444	0.69
Half note	2	722	1.39
Dotted quarter	1.5	541.5	1.85
Quarter note (one beat)	1	361	2.77
Quarter triplet	0.667	240.7	4.16
Dotted eighth	0.75	270.8	3.69
Eighth note	0.5	180.5	5.54
Eighth triplet	0.333	120.3	8.31
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	135.4	7.39
Sixteenth note	0.25	90.3	11.08
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	60.2	16.62
Thirty-second note	0.125	45.1	22.16

Half time 83.1 BPM · double time 332.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (361 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 166 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minor All songs at 166 BPM G minor at 160–169 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 32 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0e9b7e3b-2912-4592-b335-2e7e8b3189a3.