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Sweet Jane (full length version)
Sweet Jane (full length version) is in D major at 105.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
106 BPM · Andantemedian of 144 analyses · 105.8–105.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 48%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 567.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.4Hz · +25 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.61dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.909Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.115Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 48% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 105.8 BPM one beat lasts 567.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.8 ms and a dotted eighth 425.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 211.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.4 Hz, which is 25 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 3.61 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 0.909 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 | 2268.4 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1134.2 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 850.7 | 1.18 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 567.1 | 1.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 378.1 | 2.65 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 425.3 | 2.35 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 283.6 | 3.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 189 | 5.29 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 212.7 | 4.7 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 141.8 | 7.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 94.5 | 10.58 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 70.9 | 14.11 |
Half time 52.9 BPM · double time 211.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (567.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 106 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMThe Velvet Underground
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 53e3bb05-4d73-45ef-85e3-b3500f5207b9.