Eagles · Hotel California
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Pretty Maids All in a Row is in E flat major at 97.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
98 BPM · Andantemedian of 351 analyses · 97.7–98 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 351people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 614.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 9.96dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.466Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.049Essentia'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
351 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 351 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 97.7 BPM one beat lasts 614.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.5 ms and a dotted eighth 460.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 195.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 9.96 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 0.466 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 E 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 E♭ major
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 98 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2456.5 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1228.2 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 921.2 | 1.09 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 614.1 | 1.63 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 409.4 | 2.44 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 460.6 | 2.17 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 307.1 | 3.26 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 204.7 | 4.89 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 230.3 | 4.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 153.5 | 6.51 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 102.4 | 9.77 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 76.8 | 13.03 |
Half time 48.9 BPM · double time 195.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (614.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- What’s Happening BrotherMarvin GayeE♭ major98BPM
- Poster GirlBackstreet BoysE♭ major98BPM
- ButterbeanThe B‐52sE♭ major97BPM
- Don’t Let Me Get MeP!nkE♭ major99BPM
- Follow Your BlissThe B‐52sE♭ major99BPM
- Anywhere IsEnyaE♭ major97BPM
- Good Old‐Fashioned Lover BoyQueenE♭ major96BPM
- You and MeThe CranberriesE♭ major96BPM
- Save the Best for LastVanessa WilliamsE♭ major96BPM
- Stuck With MeGreen DayE♭ major96BPM
Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 98 BPME♭ major at 90–99 BPMEagles
MusicBrainz collapses 26 recording ids into this one. Recording id e1de5771-92f0-4a7d-a796-b0c6b66c7cf4.