Pink Floyd · The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Bike
Bike is in G major at 114.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
114 BPM · Moderatomedian of 288 analyses · 114.1–114.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 288people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 525.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.65dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.781Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.983Essentia'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
288 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 288 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 114.2 BPM one beat lasts 525.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 131.3 ms and a dotted eighth 394 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 228.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 3.65 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 0.781 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 114 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2101.6 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1050.8 | 0.95 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 788.1 | 1.27 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 525.4 | 1.9 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 350.3 | 2.86 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 394 | 2.54 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 262.7 | 3.81 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 175.1 | 5.71 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 197 | 5.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 131.3 | 7.61 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 87.6 | 11.42 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 65.7 | 15.23 |
Half time 57.1 BPM · double time 228.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (525.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AllentownBilly JoelG major114BPM
- HelplessCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungG major114BPM
- Everyday PeopleSly & the Family StoneG major114BPM
- I Won’t Back DownTom PettyG major114BPM
- NightswimmingR.E.M.G major114BPM
- Tin ManAmericaG major115BPM
- Living ProofBruce SpringsteenG major114BPM
- M.O.N.E.Y.The 1975G major114BPM
- Show Me ForgivenessBjörkG major114BPM
- Pink HousesJohn Cougar MellencampG major115BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 114 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 114 BPMG major at 110–119 BPMPink Floyd
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1c42ff6c-6c59-40ef-9564-a935b3551949.