TempoPeek

Big Brother & the Holding Company · Cheap Thrills

Combination of the Two

Combination of the Two is in E major at 153 beats per minute.

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Tempo

153 BPM · Allegromedian of 155 analyses · 152.9–153.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
155people who ran the extractor
One beat
392.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.59dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.789Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.173Essentia'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

155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 153 BPM one beat lasts 392.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98 ms and a dotted eighth 294.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 306. 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 2.59 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 0.789 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 153 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41568.60.64
Half note2784.31.27
Dotted quarter1.5588.21.7
Quarter note (one beat)1392.22.55
Quarter triplet0.667261.43.83
Dotted eighth0.75294.13.4
Eighth note0.5196.15.1
Eighth triplet0.333130.77.65
Dotted sixteenth0.375147.16.8
Sixteenth note0.259810.2
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.415.3
Thirty-second note0.1254920.4

Half time 76.5 BPM · double time 306 BPM. Every row is one beat (392.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Mama KinAerosmithE major153BPM
  2. BombtrackRage Against the MachineE major153BPM
  3. Don't Let Me DownThe BeatlesE major153BPM
  4. Three O’Clock BluesB.B. King & Eric ClaptonE major154BPM
  5. Stand BackThe Allman Brothers BandE major152BPM
  6. That’s All LiesJetE major152BPM
  7. BushfireThe B‐52sE major152BPM
  8. Little ChildThe BeatlesE major152BPM
  9. Let It BeAretha FranklinE major155BPM
  10. X OffenderBlondieE major155BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 153 BPME major at 150–159 BPMBig Brother & the Holding Company

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id ed3216c5-a716-4f7e-a7ea-d2431f9309fb.