Another One Bites the Dust

624 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 71% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 624 readings; 88% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 109.8 to 111.6 BPM.

At 109.9 BPM one beat lasts 546 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 136.5 ms and a dotted eighth 409.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55 BPM, counted twice as fast 219.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 455 Hz, which is 58 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 6.79 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 0.734 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.