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Let the Good Times Roll
Let the Good Times Roll is in G major at 105.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
106 BPM · Andantemedian of 209 analyses · 105.1–106.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 209people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 568.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.71dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.776Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.214Essentia'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
209 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 209 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 105.1 to 106.8 BPM.
At 105.6 BPM one beat lasts 568.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142 ms and a dotted eighth 426.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 211.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 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 4.71 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 0.776 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 106 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2272.7 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1136.4 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 852.3 | 1.17 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 568.2 | 1.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 378.8 | 2.64 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 426.1 | 2.35 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 284.1 | 3.52 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 189.4 | 5.28 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 213.1 | 4.69 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 142 | 7.04 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 94.7 | 10.56 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71 | 14.08 |
Half time 52.8 BPM · double time 211.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (568.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Wake Me Up When September EndsGreen DayG major105BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 106 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMRay Charles
MusicBrainz collapses 50 recording ids into this one. Recording id da355632-5d1a-4175-b352-a1c895a6a47b.