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Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) is in G major at 95 beats per minute.

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Tempo

95 BPM · Andantemedian of 236 analyses · 94.9–95.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
236people who ran the extractor
One beat
631.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.581Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.114Essentia'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

236 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 236 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 95 BPM one beat lasts 631.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 157.9 ms and a dotted eighth 473.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 190. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 cents above 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 5.55 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 0.581 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 95 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42526.30.4
Half note21263.20.79
Dotted quarter1.5947.41.06
Quarter note (one beat)1631.61.58
Quarter triplet0.667421.12.38
Dotted eighth0.75473.72.11
Eighth note0.5315.83.17
Eighth triplet0.333210.54.75
Dotted sixteenth0.375236.84.22
Sixteenth note0.25157.96.33
Sixteenth triplet0.167105.39.5
Thirty-second note0.12578.912.67

Half time 47.5 BPM · double time 190 BPM. Every row is one beat (631.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Just Give Me a ReasonP!nk feat. Nate RuessG major95BPM
  2. StyleTaylor SwiftG major95BPM
  3. You Rock My WorldMichael JacksonG major95BPM
  4. LingerThe CranberriesG major95BPM
  5. Rock 'n' Roll High SchoolThe AtarisG major95BPM
  6. Wonderful TonightEric ClaptonG major95BPM
  7. I Don’t Give a Fuck2PacG major95BPM
  8. If It Makes You HappySheryl CrowG major95BPM
  9. Love Sneakin’ Up on YouBonnie RaittG major95BPM
  10. I Don’t Want to Spoil the PartyThe BeatlesG major96BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 95 BPMG major at 90–99 BPMGreen Day

MusicBrainz collapses 28 recording ids into this one. Recording id 91398240-3c6b-4222-b897-7f9f3a96983b.