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The House Jack Built

The House Jack Built is in E flat minor at 94.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

94 BPM · Andantemedian of 131 analyses · 94–94.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
131people who ran the extractor
One beat
637.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
1.91dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.903Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.249Essentia'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

131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 94.1 BPM one beat lasts 637.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 159.4 ms and a dotted eighth 478.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 188.2. A score would mark that Andante, 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 1.91 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 0.903 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 flat 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 E♭ minor

Each of these differs from E♭ 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 94 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42550.50.39
Half note21275.20.78
Dotted quarter1.5956.41.05
Quarter note (one beat)1637.61.57
Quarter triplet0.667425.12.35
Dotted eighth0.75478.22.09
Eighth note0.5318.83.14
Eighth triplet0.333212.54.7
Dotted sixteenth0.375239.14.18
Sixteenth note0.25159.46.27
Sixteenth triplet0.167106.39.41
Thirty-second note0.12579.712.55

Half time 47.1 BPM · double time 188.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (637.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Mutual CoreBjörkE♭ minor94BPM
  2. Let It GoKeyshia Cole feat. Missy Elliott & Lil’ KimE♭ minor95BPM
  3. So Amazing50 Cent feat. OliviaE♭ minor95BPM
  4. Points of AuthorityLinkin ParkE♭ minor95BPM
  5. Get Up 10Cardi BE♭ minor93BPM
  6. How Do U Want It2Pac feat. K‐Ci & JoJoE♭ minor93BPM
  7. Soul WarsAWOLNATIONE♭ minor96BPM
  8. Party in the USAMiley CyrusE♭ minor96BPM
  9. Rock BottomEminemE♭ minor92BPM
  10. Games Without FrontiersPeter GabrielE♭ minor96BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 94 BPME♭ minor at 90–99 BPMMetallica

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id d46fd8e8-11ca-4796-bdd6-5183c831cde3.