David Bowie · Hunky Dory
The Bewlay Brothers
The Bewlay Brothers is in D major at 119.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
119 BPM · Moderatomedian of 325 analyses · 119.4–119.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 325people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 502.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 10.83dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.053Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.917Essentia'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
325 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 325 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 119.4 BPM one beat lasts 502.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.6 ms and a dotted eighth 376.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 238.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 10.83 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 0.053 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 119 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2010.1 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1005 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 753.8 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 502.5 | 1.99 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 335 | 2.99 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 376.9 | 2.65 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 251.3 | 3.98 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 167.5 | 5.97 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 188.4 | 5.31 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.6 | 7.96 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.8 | 11.94 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.8 | 15.92 |
Half time 59.7 BPM · double time 238.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (502.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Chapter 24Pink FloydD major119BPM
- Hey NineteenSteely DanD major120BPM
- Dancing in the StreetVan HalenD major120BPM
- Put Your Head on My ShoulderMichael BubléD major120BPM
- The Game of LoveSantana featuring Michelle BranchD major120BPM
- We Are FamilySister SledgeD major119BPM
- Love StoryTaylor SwiftD major119BPM
- You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ YetBachman–Turner OverdriveD major120BPM
- Love Me TenderElvis PresleyD major120BPM
- VisionsEaglesD major120BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 119 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 119 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4545ff1f-f7fd-4dd9-862c-d0f88f2c4f4b.