Led Zeppelin · Houses of the Holy
No Quarter
No Quarter is in C sharp minor at 143.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
143 BPM · Allegromedian of 372 analyses · 136.2–143.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 57%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 372people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 419milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.3Hz · +17 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 9.09dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.069Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.924Essentia'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
372 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 57% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 372 readings; 85% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 136.2 to 143.5 BPM.
At 143.2 BPM one beat lasts 419 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.7 ms and a dotted eighth 314.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 286.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.3 Hz, which is 17 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 9.09 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 0.069 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 C sharp 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 C♯ minor
Each of these differs from C♯ 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 143 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1676 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 838 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 628.5 | 1.59 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 419 | 2.39 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 279.3 | 3.58 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 314.2 | 3.18 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 209.5 | 4.77 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139.7 | 7.16 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 157.1 | 6.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.7 | 9.55 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.8 | 14.32 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.4 | 19.09 |
Half time 71.6 BPM · double time 286.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (419 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- My Own Summer (Shove It)DeftonesC♯ minor143BPM
- The Beautiful PeopleMarilyn MansonC♯ minor144BPM
- Bad Boy BoogieAC/DCC♯ minor142BPM
- Dancing ShoesArctic MonkeysC♯ minor145BPM
- NamastéBeastie BoysC♯ minor145BPM
- SpiesColdplayC♯ minor148BPM
- Granular BastardApparatC♯ minor148BPM
- Come a Little CloserCage the ElephantC♯ minor148BPM
- Like Spinning PlatesRadioheadC♯ minor138BPM
- Moments in LoveArt of NoiseC♯ minor138BPM
Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 143 BPMC♯ minor at 140–149 BPMLed Zeppelin
MusicBrainz collapses 413 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2822a034-283d-4082-8464-6189ff29fbb9.