TempoPeek

R.E.M. · Green

Stand

Stand is in E major at 109.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 234 analyses · 108.1–109.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
234people who ran the extractor
One beat
548.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.6Hz · +18 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.85dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.934Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.108Essentia'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

234 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 234 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 108.1 to 109.6 BPM.

At 109.3 BPM one beat lasts 548.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 137.2 ms and a dotted eighth 411.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 218.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.6 Hz, which is 18 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 2.85 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 0.934 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 109 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42195.80.46
Half note21097.90.91
Dotted quarter1.5823.41.21
Quarter note (one beat)1548.91.82
Quarter triplet0.6673662.73
Dotted eighth0.75411.72.43
Eighth note0.5274.53.64
Eighth triplet0.3331835.47
Dotted sixteenth0.375205.94.86
Sixteenth note0.25137.27.29
Sixteenth triplet0.16791.510.93
Thirty-second note0.12568.614.57

Half time 54.7 BPM · double time 218.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (548.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Stand!Sly & the Family StoneA♭ major108BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. After the Dance (instrumental)Marvin GayeE major109BPM
  2. Desired ConstellationBjörkE major109BPM
  3. DC‐10Audio AdrenalineE major110BPM
  4. Never Felt This Way (interlude)Alicia KeysE major110BPM
  5. ColaLana Del ReyE major110BPM
  6. I Want to Break FreeQueenE major109BPM
  7. BruisesLewis CapaldiE major110BPM
  8. Marvin GayeCharlie Puth feat. Meghan TrainorE major110BPM
  9. Life in the Fast LaneEaglesE major110BPM
  10. New Kid in TownEaglesE major108BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 109 BPME major at 100–109 BPMR.E.M.

MusicBrainz collapses 47 recording ids into this one. Recording id 498bac1b-471e-4f8c-9213-4cfba4deb40f.