Aerosmith · Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation is in D major at 134.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 150 analyses · 134.8–134.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
150people who ran the extractor
One beat
445.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.35dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.83Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.303Essentia'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

150 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 150 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134.8 BPM one beat lasts 445.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.3 ms and a dotted eighth 333.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 269.6. 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 4.35 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 0.83 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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41780.40.56
Half note2890.21.12
Dotted quarter1.5667.71.5
Quarter note (one beat)1445.12.25
Quarter triplet0.667296.73.37
Dotted eighth0.75333.83
Eighth note0.5222.64.49
Eighth triplet0.333148.46.74
Dotted sixteenth0.375166.95.99
Sixteenth note0.25111.38.99
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.213.48
Thirty-second note0.12555.617.97

Half time 67.4 BPM · double time 269.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (445.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)U2D major135BPM
  2. JuliaThe BeatlesD major135BPM
  3. What’s Up4 Non BlondesD major135BPM
  4. A Dustland FairytaleThe KillersD major135BPM
  5. Won’t Get Fooled AgainThe WhoD major135BPM
  6. Castle on the HillEd SheeranD major135BPM
  7. No ProblemChance the Rapper feat. Lil Wayne & 2 ChainzD major135BPM
  8. Night LifeForeignerD major135BPM
  9. Aces HighIron MaidenD major135BPM
  10. The Width of a CircleDavid BowieD 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 BPMAerosmith

MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4e93fb7b-c3c0-4b89-821c-3299c97e7be6.