Aerosmith · Get a Grip

Get a Grip

Get a Grip is in E major at 104.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

105 BPM · Andantemedian of 184 analyses · 104.8–104.9 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
184people who ran the extractor
One beat
572.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.1dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.961Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.408Essentia'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

184 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 184 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 104.8 BPM one beat lasts 572.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 143.1 ms and a dotted eighth 429.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 209.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 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 2.1 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 0.961 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 105 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42290.10.44
Half note211450.87
Dotted quarter1.5858.81.16
Quarter note (one beat)1572.51.75
Quarter triplet0.667381.72.62
Dotted eighth0.75429.42.33
Eighth note0.5286.33.49
Eighth triplet0.333190.85.24
Dotted sixteenth0.375214.74.66
Sixteenth note0.25143.16.99
Sixteenth triplet0.16795.410.48
Thirty-second note0.12571.613.97

Half time 52.4 BPM · double time 209.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (572.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural WomanCéline DionE major105BPM
  2. LoveGameLady GagaE major105BPM
  3. You Found MeKelly ClarksonE major105BPM
  4. Mi genteJ Balvin & Willy WilliamE major105BPM
  5. SummerboyLady GagaE major105BPM
  6. GraceLewis CapaldiE major105BPM
  7. Expo ’86Death Cab for CutieE major105BPM
  8. Mer GirlMadonnaE major105BPM
  9. Ten DaysCéline DionE major105BPM
  10. PoundcakeVan HalenE major105BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 105 BPME major at 100–109 BPMAerosmith

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7bd7e444-975f-416d-b6b4-36407047b8c3.