The White Stripes · Elephant
The Air Near My Fingers
The Air Near My Fingers is in C major at 94.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
94 BPM · Andantemedian of 149 analyses · 94.3–94.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 149people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 635.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.29dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.956Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.255Essentia'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
149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 94.4 BPM one beat lasts 635.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 158.9 ms and a dotted eighth 476.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 188.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above 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 2.29 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 0.956 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 94 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2542.4 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1271.2 | 0.79 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 953.4 | 1.05 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 635.6 | 1.57 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 423.7 | 2.36 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 476.7 | 2.1 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 317.8 | 3.15 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 211.9 | 4.72 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 238.3 | 4.2 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 158.9 | 6.29 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 105.9 | 9.44 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 79.4 | 12.59 |
Half time 47.2 BPM · double time 188.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (635.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 94 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMThe White Stripes
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id af038ac0-c0bc-4561-b1ff-ce40bc6719a6.