R.E.M. · Reckoning
(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville is in E major at 151.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
151 BPM · Allegromedian of 162 analyses · 151.2–151.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 162people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 396.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.21dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.876Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.107Essentia'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
162 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 151.3 BPM one beat lasts 396.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.1 ms and a dotted eighth 297.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 302.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 3.21 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 0.876 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 151 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1586.3 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 793.1 | 1.26 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 594.8 | 1.68 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 396.6 | 2.52 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 264.4 | 3.78 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 297.4 | 3.36 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 198.3 | 5.04 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 132.2 | 7.57 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 148.7 | 6.72 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99.1 | 10.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.1 | 15.13 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.6 | 20.17 |
Half time 75.7 BPM · double time 302.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (396.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Tube Snake BoogieZZ TopE major151BPM
- Little ChildThe BeatlesE major152BPM
- Lonely StrangerEric ClaptonE major151BPM
- BushfireThe B‐52sE major152BPM
- Stand BackThe Allman Brothers BandE major152BPM
- Welcome to the Working WeekElvis CostelloE major150BPM
- That’s All LiesJetE major152BPM
- AngelsRobbie WilliamsE major150BPM
- Let Me Down SlowlyAlec BenjaminE major150BPM
- Sentimental LadyFleetwood MacE major150BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 151 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 151 BPME major at 150–159 BPMR.E.M.
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id 09c958e0-c8e9-4399-bcfb-92063eb946f7.