Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin

Good Times Bad Times

Good Times Bad Times is in A major at 184.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

185 BPM · Prestomedian of 162 analyses · 94.2–184.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
162people who ran the extractor
One beat
325milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.4Hz · -2.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.7dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.908Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.927Essentia'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

162 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 59% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 94.2 to 184.6 BPM.

At 184.6 BPM one beat lasts 325 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 81.3 ms and a dotted eighth 243.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 92.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 369.2. A score would mark that Presto, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.4 Hz, which is 2.5 cents below 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 4.7 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 0.908 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 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 185 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41300.10.77
Half note2650.11.54
Dotted quarter1.5487.52.05
Quarter note (one beat)13253.08
Quarter triplet0.667216.74.61
Dotted eighth0.75243.84.1
Eighth note0.5162.56.15
Eighth triplet0.333108.39.23
Dotted sixteenth0.375121.98.2
Sixteenth note0.2581.312.31
Sixteenth triplet0.16754.218.46
Thirty-second note0.12540.624.61

Half time 92.3 BPM · double time 369.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (325 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Good Times, Bad TimesThe Rolling StonesC major99BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Nile SongPink FloydA major178BPM
  2. Big Ten Inch RecordAerosmithA major178BPM
  3. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que será, será)Doris DayA major178BPM
  4. I Believe in YouCéline Dion feat. Il DivoA major178BPM
  5. FeverAerosmithA major178BPM
  6. The Roach (The Chronic Outro)Dr. DreA major178BPM
  7. Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili PeppersA major172BPM
  8. Bitter Sweet SymphonyThe VerveA major172BPM
  9. Oh! DarlingThe BeatlesA major172BPM
  10. WonderwallOasisA major172BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 185 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 185 BPMLed Zeppelin

MusicBrainz collapses 31 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3f7e04ef-822a-412a-8fc7-669dcee6dbfa.