TempoPeek

Meat Puppets · Rise to Your Knees

Spit

Spit is in A major at 154.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

155 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 154.9–154.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
387.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.06dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.959Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.146Essentia'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

134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 154.9 BPM one beat lasts 387.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.8 ms and a dotted eighth 290.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 309.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 2.06 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 0.959 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 155 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41549.40.65
Half note2774.71.29
Dotted quarter1.55811.72
Quarter note (one beat)1387.32.58
Quarter triplet0.667258.23.87
Dotted eighth0.75290.53.44
Eighth note0.5193.75.16
Eighth triplet0.333129.17.75
Dotted sixteenth0.375145.36.88
Sixteenth note0.2596.810.33
Sixteenth triplet0.16764.615.49
Thirty-second note0.12548.420.65

Half time 77.5 BPM · double time 309.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (387.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. In God’s HandsNelly FurtadoA major155BPM
  2. All the TimeGreen DayA major155BPM
  3. Fistful of SteelRage Against the MachineA major155BPM
  4. Iron ManBlack SabbathA major155BPM
  5. Radio Free EuropeR.E.M.A major155BPM
  6. There’s No Home for You HereThe White StripesA major155BPM
  7. The Name of the GameABBAA major154BPM
  8. Breaking BreadJohnny CashA major155BPM
  9. Another Rainy Day in New York CityChicagoA major154BPM
  10. Black Country RockDavid BowieA major156BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 155 BPMA major at 150–159 BPMMeat Puppets

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id c4ce3460-42dc-48a9-af53-f822bb7aed5b.