TempoPeek

Pink Floyd · The Wall

The Happiest Days of Our Lives

The Happiest Days of Our Lives is in D minor at 103.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 251 analyses · 103.3–104 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
54%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
251people who ran the extractor
One beat
579.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.45dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.625Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.262Essentia'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

251 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 251 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 103.6 BPM one beat lasts 579.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.8 ms and a dotted eighth 434.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 207.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above 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 6.45 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 0.625 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 D 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42316.60.43
Half note21158.30.86
Dotted quarter1.5868.71.15
Quarter note (one beat)1579.21.73
Quarter triplet0.667386.12.59
Dotted eighth0.75434.42.3
Eighth note0.5289.63.45
Eighth triplet0.333193.15.18
Dotted sixteenth0.375217.24.6
Sixteenth note0.25144.86.91
Sixteenth triplet0.16796.510.36
Thirty-second note0.12572.413.81

Half time 51.8 BPM · double time 207.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (579.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. It’s Too LateCarole KingD minor104BPM
  2. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2Pink FloydD minor104BPM
  3. You Know I’m No GoodAmy WinehouseD minor104BPM
  4. The ClairvoyantIron MaidenD minor103BPM
  5. Who Is ItMichael JacksonD minor103BPM
  6. FastloveGeorge MichaelD minor104BPM
  7. WellCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandD minor104BPM
  8. I Might Be WrongRadioheadD minor103BPM
  9. Paper CutsNirvanaD minor103BPM
  10. I Like DirtRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor105BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 104 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 35 recording ids into this one. Recording id 84978bae-46e2-4d9d-b390-5bd8a1c31983.