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Does Your Mother Know

Does Your Mother Know is in G major at 135.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 299 analyses · 135.3–135.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
299people who ran the extractor
One beat
442.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.51dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.886Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.256Essentia'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

299 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 299 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 135.5 BPM one beat lasts 442.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.7 ms and a dotted eighth 332.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 271. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below 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 4.51 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 0.886 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 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41771.20.56
Half note2885.61.13
Dotted quarter1.5664.21.51
Quarter note (one beat)1442.82.26
Quarter triplet0.667295.23.39
Dotted eighth0.75332.13.01
Eighth note0.5221.44.52
Eighth triplet0.333147.66.78
Dotted sixteenth0.375166.16.02
Sixteenth note0.25110.79.03
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.813.55
Thirty-second note0.12555.418.07

Half time 67.8 BPM · double time 271 BPM. Every row is one beat (442.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. School’s OutAlice CooperG major136BPM
  2. TroubleP!nkG major136BPM
  3. Where Did Our Love GoThe SupremesG major136BPM
  4. I’m Just a Lucky So and SoLouis Armstrong & Duke EllingtonG major136BPM
  5. Freeway JamJeff BeckG major135BPM
  6. I Need YouAmericaG major135BPM
  7. NightingaleEaglesG major135BPM
  8. Little SavageElvis Costello & The AttractionsG major136BPM
  9. The Boy in the BubblePaul SimonG major136BPM
  10. Hold OnGreen DayG major136BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 136 BPMG major at 130–139 BPMABBA

MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id 258b87aa-4521-4798-955c-8d86250a1246.