Radiohead · Amnesiac

Hunting Bears

Hunting Bears is in G major at 117.4 beats per minute.

4080120160200

Tempo

117 BPM · Moderatomedian of 159 analyses · 117–117.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
159people who ran the extractor
One beat
511.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.82dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.847Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.731Essentia'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

159 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 159 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 117.4 BPM one beat lasts 511.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.8 ms and a dotted eighth 383.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 234.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.82 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 0.847 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 117 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42044.30.49
Half note21022.10.98
Dotted quarter1.5766.61.3
Quarter note (one beat)1511.11.96
Quarter triplet0.667340.72.94
Dotted eighth0.75383.32.61
Eighth note0.5255.53.91
Eighth triplet0.333170.45.87
Dotted sixteenth0.375191.75.22
Sixteenth note0.25127.87.83
Sixteenth triplet0.16785.211.74
Thirty-second note0.12563.915.65

Half time 58.7 BPM · double time 234.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (511.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The RiverBruce SpringsteenG major117BPM
  2. ShelaAerosmithG major118BPM
  3. Midnight FlyerEaglesG major117BPM
  4. Be My LoverAlice CooperG major117BPM
  5. Sweet Painted LadyElton JohnG major118BPM
  6. The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party, Part 3: ExitNick MasonG major117BPM
  7. Redemption SongBob Marley & The WailersG major117BPM
  8. Year of the CatAl StewartG major118BPM
  9. PegSteely DanG major117BPM
  10. CarusoAndrea BocelliG major118BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 117 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 117 BPMG major at 110–119 BPMRadiohead

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id b5dd28ac-0a1e-45cb-b4ad-a9aefe7ee167.