Pink Floyd · Meddle
One of These Days
One of These Days is in B major at 137.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
137 BPM · Allegromedian of 184 analyses · 137.2–137.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 184people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 437milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.41dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.203Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.164Essentia'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
184 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 184 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 137.3 BPM one beat lasts 437 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.2 ms and a dotted eighth 327.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 274.6. 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 8.41 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 0.203 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 137 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1748 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 874 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 655.5 | 1.53 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 437 | 2.29 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 291.3 | 3.43 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 327.7 | 3.05 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 218.5 | 4.58 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 145.7 | 6.87 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 163.9 | 6.1 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.2 | 9.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.8 | 13.73 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.6 | 18.31 |
Half time 68.7 BPM · double time 274.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (437 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- ExitludeThe KillersB major137BPM
- NutshellAlice in ChainsB major137BPM
- Just Go AwayBlondieB major139BPM
- Kings HorsesJetB major139BPM
- DesnudoEnrique IglesiasB major139BPM
- I Drove All NightCéline DionB major135BPM
- You Are the Sunshine of My LifeStevie WonderB major135BPM
- On the MendFoo FightersB major135BPM
- I Don’t Want to KnowFleetwood MacB major140BPM
- Sysyphus, Part 4Richard WrightB major140BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 137 BPMB major at 130–139 BPMPink Floyd
MusicBrainz collapses 231 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8a313f74-75fe-40ff-a1a9-0b000216c555.