TempoPeek

Bob Dylan & The Band · The Basement Tapes

Million Dollar Bash

Million Dollar Bash is in E major at 119.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 179 analyses · 119.5–119.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
179people who ran the extractor
One beat
501.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436.7Hz · -13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.91dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.936Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.178Essentia'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

179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 119.6 BPM one beat lasts 501.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.4 ms and a dotted eighth 376.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.7 Hz, which is 13 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 3.91 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 0.936 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42006.70.5
Half note21003.31
Dotted quarter1.5752.51.33
Quarter note (one beat)1501.71.99
Quarter triplet0.667334.42.99
Dotted eighth0.75376.32.66
Eighth note0.5250.83.99
Eighth triplet0.333167.25.98
Dotted sixteenth0.375188.15.32
Sixteenth note0.25125.47.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.611.96
Thirty-second note0.12562.715.95

Half time 59.8 BPM · double time 239.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (501.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Under the BoardwalkThe Rolling StonesE major120BPM
  2. Don’t Stop Believin’JourneyE major120BPM
  3. Before You Accuse MeCreedence Clearwater RevivalE major119BPM
  4. Dark ParadiseLana Del ReyE major120BPM
  5. It’s So EasyLinda RonstadtE major120BPM
  6. Then You Look at MeCéline DionE major120BPM
  7. The LanguageDrakeE major120BPM
  8. Talk!The 1975E major120BPM
  9. DynamiteTaio CruzE major120BPM
  10. BlowKe$haE major120BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 120 BPME major at 110–119 BPMBob Dylan & The Band

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5354181c-f354-4b67-a060-14cc24d989ef.