TempoPeek

The Hues Corporation · Freedom for the Stallion

Rock the Boat

Rock the Boat is in E flat major at 107.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

107 BPM · Andantemedian of 202 analyses · 107.1–107.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
202people who ran the extractor
One beat
559.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.67dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.94Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.283Essentia'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

202 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 202 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 107.2 BPM one beat lasts 559.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.9 ms and a dotted eighth 419.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 214.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 3.67 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 0.94 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 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 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 107 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42238.80.45
Half note21119.40.89
Dotted quarter1.5839.61.19
Quarter note (one beat)1559.71.79
Quarter triplet0.667373.12.68
Dotted eighth0.75419.82.38
Eighth note0.5279.93.57
Eighth triplet0.333186.65.36
Dotted sixteenth0.375209.94.76
Sixteenth note0.25139.97.15
Sixteenth triplet0.16793.310.72
Thirty-second note0.1257014.29

Half time 53.6 BPM · double time 214.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (559.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Send Me an AngelScorpionsE♭ major108BPM
  2. Queen of Las VegasThe B‐52sE♭ major107BPM
  3. I Can’t DanceGenesisE♭ major108BPM
  4. Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex MachineJames BrownE♭ major108BPM
  5. She Said She SaidThe BeatlesE♭ major107BPM
  6. Summit SiegeTim DaviesE♭ major109BPM
  7. How Deep Is Your LoveBee GeesE♭ major105BPM
  8. I Miss YouClean Bandit feat. Julia MichaelsE♭ major105BPM
  9. EverytimeBritney SpearsE♭ major110BPM
  10. Move AlongThe All‐American RejectsE♭ major110BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 107 BPME♭ major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 76 recording ids into this one. Recording id e6f6339c-64ee-4205-a8a7-ee662ac1751e.