The Who · The Who Sings My Generation
My Generation
My Generation is in G minor at 96.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
96 BPM · Andantemedian of 344 analyses · 95.8–96.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 69%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 344people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 624.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 447.9Hz · +31 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.935Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.947Essentia'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
344 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 69% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 344 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 96.1 BPM one beat lasts 624.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 156.1 ms and a dotted eighth 468.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 192.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.9 Hz, which is 31 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 2.24 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 0.935 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 G 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 G minor
Each of these differs from G 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 96 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2497.4 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1248.7 | 0.8 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 936.5 | 1.07 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 624.3 | 1.6 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 416.2 | 2.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 468.3 | 2.14 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 312.2 | 3.2 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 208.1 | 4.81 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 234.1 | 4.27 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 156.1 | 6.41 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 104.1 | 9.61 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 78 | 12.81 |
Half time 48.1 BPM · double time 192.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (624.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- If You Have to AskRed Hot Chili PeppersG minor96BPM
- BacheloretteBjörkG minor97BPM
- Feuer freiRammsteinG minor95BPM
- I Shot the SheriffEric ClaptonG minor94BPM
- ShoutTears for FearsG minor98BPM
- Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?The BeatlesG minor94BPM
- Without YouChristina AguileraG minor99BPM
- Love of My LifeSantana featuring Dave Matthews & Carter BeaufordG minor93BPM
- Witchy WomanEaglesG minor99BPM
- Fuck Friendz2PacG minor93BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 96 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 96 BPMG minor at 90–99 BPMThe Who
MusicBrainz collapses 225 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9ce06d95-8de5-4560-b280-9aa5387d100a.