TempoPeek

The White Stripes · Elephant

Seven Nation Army

Seven Nation Army is in E minor at 123.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

123 BPM · Allegromedian of 314 analyses · 123.1–123.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
314people who ran the extractor
One beat
487milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.943Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.359Essentia'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

314 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 314 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 123.2 BPM one beat lasts 487 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.8 ms and a dotted eighth 365.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 246.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.16 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 0.943 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from E minor 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 123 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41948.10.51
Half note29741.03
Dotted quarter1.5730.51.37
Quarter note (one beat)14872.05
Quarter triplet0.667324.73.08
Dotted eighth0.75365.32.74
Eighth note0.5243.54.11
Eighth triplet0.333162.36.16
Dotted sixteenth0.375182.65.48
Sixteenth note0.25121.88.21
Sixteenth triplet0.16781.212.32
Thirty-second note0.12560.916.43

Half time 61.6 BPM · double time 246.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (487 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Blood That Moves the Bodya‐haE minor123BPM
  2. Eat the RichAerosmithE minor123BPM
  3. You’re All I’ve Got TonightThe CarsE minor123BPM
  4. Electric FuneralBlack SabbathE minor124BPM
  5. Dear RosemaryFoo FightersE minor124BPM
  6. A Horse With No NameAmericaE minor124BPM
  7. The KillThirty Seconds to MarsE minor122BPM
  8. Du hastRammsteinE minor125BPM
  9. Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)Cardi BE minor125BPM
  10. The Sheltering SkyKing CrimsonE minor125BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 123 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 123 BPME minor at 120–129 BPMThe White Stripes

MusicBrainz collapses 41 recording ids into this one. Recording id 24cc8311-98fd-423a-bed1-97728f5eabc5.