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Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers is in C minor at 134.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 138 analyses · 133.9–134.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
138people who ran the extractor
One beat
446.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.06dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.149Essentia'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

138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134.5 BPM one beat lasts 446.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.5 ms and a dotted eighth 334.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 269. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 3.06 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 0.931 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 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 135 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41784.40.56
Half note2892.21.12
Dotted quarter1.5669.11.49
Quarter note (one beat)1446.12.24
Quarter triplet0.667297.43.36
Dotted eighth0.75334.62.99
Eighth note0.52234.48
Eighth triplet0.333148.76.73
Dotted sixteenth0.375167.35.98
Sixteenth note0.25111.58.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.313.45
Thirty-second note0.12555.817.93

Half time 67.3 BPM · double time 269 BPM. Every row is one beat (446.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Beautiful LifeAce of BaseC minor135BPM
  2. Love ShackThe B‐52sC minor134BPM
  3. A Lack of ColorDeath Cab for CutieC minor136BPM
  4. Yeat’s GraveThe CranberriesC minor136BPM
  5. Black SabbathBlack SabbathC minor133BPM
  6. A Question of TimeDepeche ModeC minor136BPM
  7. Fill Me InCraig DavidC minor133BPM
  8. Don’t Give Up (original radio edit)Chicane feat. Bryan AdamsC minor131BPM
  9. Keine LustRammsteinC minor138BPM
  10. Break & EnterThe ProdigyC minor138BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 135 BPMC minor at 130–139 BPMZZ Top

MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 62ec7207-aa84-43b6-949e-8066b6be2cad.