AC/DC · Ballbreaker
Whiskey on the Rocks
Whiskey on the Rocks is in E major at 94.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
95 BPM · Andantemedian of 143 analyses · 94.6–94.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 143people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 633.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.39dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.898Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.323Essentia'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
143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 94.7 BPM one beat lasts 633.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 158.4 ms and a dotted eighth 475.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 189.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.39 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 0.898 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 95 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2534.3 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1267.2 | 0.79 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 950.4 | 1.05 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 633.6 | 1.58 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 422.4 | 2.37 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 475.2 | 2.1 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 316.8 | 3.16 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 211.2 | 4.73 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 237.6 | 4.21 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 158.4 | 6.31 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 105.6 | 9.47 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 79.2 | 12.63 |
Half time 47.4 BPM · double time 189.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (633.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 95 BPME major at 90–99 BPMAC/DC
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id ac0401a5-8bfc-4e1c-b76f-9abc2ff0421f.