Digital Underground · Sex Packets
The Humpty Dance
The Humpty Dance is in B flat major at 103.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
104 BPM · Andantemedian of 137 analyses · 103.5–103.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 137people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 579.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.3dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.929Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.161Essentia'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
137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 103.5 BPM one beat lasts 579.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.9 ms and a dotted eighth 434.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 207. A score would mark that Andante, 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 3.3 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 0.929 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 B flat 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 B♭ major
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 104 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2318.8 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1159.4 | 0.86 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 869.6 | 1.15 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 579.7 | 1.73 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 386.5 | 2.59 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 434.8 | 2.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 289.9 | 3.45 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 193.2 | 5.18 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 217.4 | 4.6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 144.9 | 6.9 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 96.6 | 10.35 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72.5 | 13.8 |
Half time 51.8 BPM · double time 207 BPM. Every row is one beat (579.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BootyliciousDestiny’s ChildB♭ major103BPM
- I Get WeakBelinda CarlisleB♭ major103BPM
- Shake Your RumpBeastie BoysB♭ major103BPM
- Burning Down the HouseTalking HeadsB♭ major103BPM
- Video PhoneBeyoncéB♭ major104BPM
- Girl From the North CountryBob DylanB♭ major103BPM
- OverkillShotgun MessiahB♭ major103BPM
- Nothin’ on YouB.o.B feat. Bruno MarsB♭ major104BPM
- I Have a DreamABBAB♭ major104BPM
- DownerNirvanaB♭ major103BPM
Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 104 BPMB♭ major at 100–109 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 22 recording ids into this one. Recording id 26ad9936-6b12-4b4f-8090-74109435a77d.