TempoPeek

The Beatles · The Beatles

Piggies

Piggies is in A flat major at 92.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

93 BPM · Andantemedian of 311 analyses · 91.8–156.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
75%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
311people who ran the extractor
One beat
648.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.09dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.833Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.158Essentia'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

311 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 75% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 311 readings; 79% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 91.8 to 156.1 BPM.

At 92.5 BPM one beat lasts 648.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 162.2 ms and a dotted eighth 486.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 185. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 cents below 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 4.09 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 0.833 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 flat 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 A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ 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 93 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42594.60.39
Half note21297.30.77
Dotted quarter1.59731.03
Quarter note (one beat)1648.61.54
Quarter triplet0.667432.42.31
Dotted eighth0.75486.52.06
Eighth note0.5324.33.08
Eighth triplet0.333216.24.63
Dotted sixteenth0.375243.24.11
Sixteenth note0.25162.26.17
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.19.25
Thirty-second note0.12581.112.33

Half time 46.3 BPM · double time 185 BPM. Every row is one beat (648.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The First TimeU2A♭ major92BPM
  2. I Don’t Believe YouP!nkA♭ major92BPM
  3. The Obvious ChildPaul SimonA♭ major93BPM
  4. Over the RainbowEva CassidyA♭ major93BPM
  5. No Church in the WildKanye West & JAY Z featuring Frank Ocean & The DreamA♭ major93BPM
  6. Wake UpAWOLNATIONA♭ major93BPM
  7. All I Want Is YouU2A♭ major93BPM
  8. Paul RevereBeastie BoysA♭ major92BPM
  9. Dreamers BallQueenA♭ major92BPM
  10. Latin LingoCypress HillA♭ major91BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 93 BPMA♭ major at 90–99 BPMThe Beatles

MusicBrainz collapses 39 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9506a3df-d210-43ba-9d50-30bf45e650ae.