TempoPeek

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Dancing Shoes

Dancing Shoes is in C sharp minor at 144.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

145 BPM · Allegromedian of 135 analyses · 144.4–144.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
87%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
135people who ran the extractor
One beat
414.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.23dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.964Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.411Essentia'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

135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 144.6 BPM one beat lasts 414.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.7 ms and a dotted eighth 311.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 289.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 2.23 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 0.964 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 C sharp minor; 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 C♯ minor

Each of these differs from C♯ minor 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 145 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41659.80.6
Half note2829.91.21
Dotted quarter1.5622.41.61
Quarter note (one beat)1414.92.41
Quarter triplet0.667276.63.62
Dotted eighth0.75311.23.21
Eighth note0.5207.54.82
Eighth triplet0.333138.37.23
Dotted sixteenth0.375155.66.43
Sixteenth note0.25103.79.64
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.214.46
Thirty-second note0.12551.919.28

Half time 72.3 BPM · double time 289.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (414.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Beautiful PeopleMarilyn MansonC♯ minor144BPM
  2. NamastéBeastie BoysC♯ minor145BPM
  3. My Own Summer (Shove It)DeftonesC♯ minor143BPM
  4. No QuarterLed ZeppelinC♯ minor143BPM
  5. Bad Boy BoogieAC/DCC♯ minor142BPM
  6. SpiesColdplayC♯ minor148BPM
  7. Granular BastardApparatC♯ minor148BPM
  8. Come a Little CloserCage the ElephantC♯ minor148BPM
  9. Spinning the WheelGeorge MichaelC♯ minor150BPM
  10. Like Spinning PlatesRadioheadC♯ minor138BPM

Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 145 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 145 BPMC♯ minor at 140–149 BPMArctic Monkeys

MusicBrainz collapses 28 recording ids into this one. Recording id cd4f354c-63a5-469b-932f-0c38aeaeeea3.