Alice Cooper · Killer
Desperado
Desperado is in F major at 122.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
122 BPM · Allegromedian of 200 analyses · 122.2–122.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 200people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 490.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.94dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.869Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.186Essentia'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
200 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 200 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 122.4 BPM one beat lasts 490.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 122.5 ms and a dotted eighth 367.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 244.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 4.94 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 0.869 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 122 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1960.8 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 980.4 | 1.02 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 735.3 | 1.36 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 490.2 | 2.04 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 326.8 | 3.06 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 367.6 | 2.72 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 245.1 | 4.08 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 163.4 | 6.12 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 183.8 | 5.44 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 122.5 | 8.16 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 81.7 | 12.24 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 61.3 | 16.32 |
Half time 61.2 BPM · double time 244.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (490.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t PanicColdplayF major122BPM
- Till There Was YouThe BeatlesF major122BPM
- The Lion Sleeps TonightThe TokensF major122BPM
- Start Me UpThe Rolling StonesF major123BPM
- Money Won’t Change YouAretha FranklinF major123BPM
- When Lights Are LowMiles Davis QuartetF major123BPM
- Tea for OneLed ZeppelinF major123BPM
- Long GoneBryan AdamsF major123BPM
- Banana Boat Song (Day‐O)Harry BelafonteF major123BPM
- Love Is a StrangerEurythmicsF major122BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 122 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMAlice Cooper
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id d7ebc9cb-b437-4464-9674-19b537d5ba42.