Eagles · Desperado

Outlaw Man

Outlaw Man is in A minor at 89.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

90 BPM · Andantemedian of 211 analyses · 88.6–89.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
211people who ran the extractor
One beat
668.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.17dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.828Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.06Essentia'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

211 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 211 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 88.6 to 89.8 BPM.

At 89.8 BPM one beat lasts 668.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 167 ms and a dotted eighth 501.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 179.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 4.17 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 0.828 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 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 90 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42672.60.37
Half note21336.30.75
Dotted quarter1.51002.21
Quarter note (one beat)1668.21.5
Quarter triplet0.667445.42.24
Dotted eighth0.75501.12
Eighth note0.5334.12.99
Eighth triplet0.333222.74.49
Dotted sixteenth0.375250.63.99
Sixteenth note0.251675.99
Sixteenth triplet0.167111.48.98
Thirty-second note0.12583.511.97

Half time 44.9 BPM · double time 179.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (668.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. ’03 Bonnie & ClydeJay‐Z feat. Beyoncé KnowlesA minor90BPM
  2. No OneAlicia KeysA minor90BPM
  3. Je sais pasCéline DionA minor90BPM
  4. RinzlerDaft PunkA minor90BPM
  5. CloserNine Inch NailsA minor90BPM
  6. The Honey RollAC/DCA minor90BPM
  7. Heathenstwenty one pilotsA minor90BPM
  8. In My FeelingsLana Del ReyA minor90BPM
  9. Good Life2Pac featuring Big Syke & E.D.I of the OUTLAWZA minor90BPM
  10. Fight Fire With FireMetallicaA minor90BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 90 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 90 BPMA minor at 80–89 BPMEagles

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7900ddb1-b175-4fcb-9412-1a3fc1197cf5.