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Arnold Layne
Arnold Layne is in A minor at 133.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
133 BPM · Allegromedian of 169 analyses · 133.1–133.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 69%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 169people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 450.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.906Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.925Essentia'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
169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 69% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 133.2 BPM one beat lasts 450.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.6 ms and a dotted eighth 337.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 266.4. 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 2.6 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 0.906 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 133 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1801.8 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 900.9 | 1.11 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 675.7 | 1.48 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 450.5 | 2.22 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 300.3 | 3.33 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 337.8 | 2.96 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 225.2 | 4.44 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 150.2 | 6.66 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 168.9 | 5.92 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 112.6 | 8.88 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.1 | 13.32 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.3 | 17.76 |
Half time 66.6 BPM · double time 266.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (450.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Keep Yourself AliveQueenA minor133BPM
- ExodusBob Marley & The WailersA minor133BPM
- Walk on the WaterCreedence Clearwater RevivalA minor133BPM
- Howlin’ for YouThe Black KeysA minor133BPM
- Love Me Two TimesThe DoorsA minor133BPM
- Life During WartimeTalking HeadsA minor133BPM
- Everything’s Coming Our WaySantanaA minor133BPM
- Line UpAerosmithA minor133BPM
- TalismanAirA minor133BPM
- Steamy WindowsTina TurnerA minor134BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 133 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMPink Floyd
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id b85dff73-d90f-4e33-8ad1-afebb1c3f2c0.