Neil Young · Harvest
Alabama
Alabama is in A minor at 148.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
148 BPM · Allegromedian of 156 analyses · 148.2–148.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 156people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 404.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 452.6Hz · +49 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.3dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.629Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.075Essentia'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
156 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 156 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 148.3 BPM one beat lasts 404.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.1 ms and a dotted eighth 303.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 296.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.6 Hz, which is 49 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.3 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 0.629 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 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 148 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1618.3 | 0.62 |
| Half note | 2 | 809.2 | 1.24 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 606.9 | 1.65 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 404.6 | 2.47 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 269.7 | 3.71 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 303.4 | 3.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 202.3 | 4.94 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 134.9 | 7.42 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 151.7 | 6.59 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 101.1 | 9.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.4 | 14.83 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.6 | 19.77 |
Half time 74.2 BPM · double time 296.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (404.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- InnuendoQueenA minor148BPM
- Bring Your Daughter… to the SlaughterIron MaidenA minor148BPM
- 53 Miles West of VenusThe B‐52sA minor148BPM
- XChris BrownA minor148BPM
- Declare IndependenceBjörkA minor149BPM
- Take It as It ComesThe DoorsA minor149BPM
- Blood Sugar Sex MagikRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor147BPM
- The View From the AfternoonArctic MonkeysA minor147BPM
- Love Her MadlyThe DoorsA minor147BPM
- Hidden PlaceBjörkA minor150BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 148 BPMA minor at 140–149 BPMNeil Young
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id d7314f92-0346-4953-a187-01c13cb14262.