TempoPeek

Earth, Wind & Fire · Spirit

Saturday Nite

Saturday Nite is in E major at 106.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

107 BPM · Andantemedian of 168 analyses · 106.3–106.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
168people who ran the extractor
One beat
562.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.865Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.397Essentia'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

168 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 168 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 106.6 BPM one beat lasts 562.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.7 ms and a dotted eighth 422.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 213.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 4.16 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 0.865 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 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 107 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42251.40.44
Half note21125.70.89
Dotted quarter1.5844.31.18
Quarter note (one beat)1562.91.78
Quarter triplet0.667375.22.67
Dotted eighth0.75422.12.37
Eighth note0.5281.43.55
Eighth triplet0.333187.65.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375211.14.74
Sixteenth note0.25140.77.11
Sixteenth triplet0.16793.810.66
Thirty-second note0.12570.414.21

Half time 53.3 BPM · double time 213.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (562.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Kids With GunsGorillazE major106BPM
  2. The Night Time Is the Right TimeCreedence Clearwater RevivalE major106BPM
  3. CaliforniaJoni MitchellE major106BPM
  4. PoundcakeVan HalenE major105BPM
  5. Waterloo SunsetThe KinksE major108BPM
  6. CologneHauxE major108BPM
  7. I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)Aretha Franklin with George MichaelE major108BPM
  8. PhotographEd SheeranE major108BPM
  9. Heart’s Done TimeAerosmithE major108BPM
  10. Aún existe amorCéline DionE major108BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 107 BPME major at 100–109 BPMEarth, Wind & Fire

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 985bee76-c4ef-4ef1-8bed-30d938d30fbe.