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The Kids Are Alright
The Kids Are Alright is in D major at 135.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 225 analyses · 132.8–135.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 225people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 443.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.7Hz · +26 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 1.95dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.972Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.021Essentia'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
225 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 225 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 132.8 to 135.3 BPM.
At 135.2 BPM one beat lasts 443.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.9 ms and a dotted eighth 332.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.7 Hz, which is 26 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 1.95 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 0.972 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1775.1 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 887.6 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 665.7 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 443.8 | 2.25 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 295.9 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 332.8 | 3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 221.9 | 4.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.9 | 6.76 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.4 | 6.01 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.9 | 9.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74 | 13.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.5 | 18.03 |
Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (443.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Width of a CircleDavid BowieD major135BPM
- No ProblemChance the Rapper feat. Lil Wayne & 2 ChainzD major135BPM
- Night LifeForeignerD major135BPM
- Won’t Get Fooled AgainThe WhoD major135BPM
- Castle on the HillEd SheeranD major135BPM
- SubstituteThe WhoD major135BPM
- I Would Die 4 UPrince and The RevolutionD major135BPM
- The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)U2D major135BPM
- JuliaThe BeatlesD major135BPM
- What’s Up4 Non BlondesD major135BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 135 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMThe Who
MusicBrainz collapses 64 recording ids into this one. Recording id 632798b7-1603-4b35-a9c7-afe4fa692445.