Cat Stevens · Tea for the Tillerman
Where Do the Children Play?
Where Do the Children Play? is in G major at 129 beats per minute.
Tempo
129 BPM · Allegromedian of 201 analyses · 128.9–129.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 201people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 465.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.18dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.171Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.097Essentia'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
201 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 201 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 129 BPM one beat lasts 465.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.3 ms and a dotted eighth 348.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 258. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below 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 5.18 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 0.171 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 129 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1860.5 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 930.2 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 697.7 | 1.43 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 465.1 | 2.15 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 310.1 | 3.23 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 348.8 | 2.87 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 232.6 | 4.3 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 155 | 6.45 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 174.4 | 5.73 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 116.3 | 8.6 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.5 | 12.9 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.1 | 17.2 |
Half time 64.5 BPM · double time 258 BPM. Every row is one beat (465.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- It Ain’t FairAretha FranklinG major129BPM
- I Dream Myself Alivea‐haG major129BPM
- DreamsThe Allman Brothers BandG major129BPM
- No TimeThe Guess WhoG major129BPM
- HopeBjörkG major129BPM
- You Shook Me All Night LongAC/DCG major129BPM
- The Show Must Go OnPink FloydG major129BPM
- Lover’s RockThe ClashG major129BPM
- Wild Eyed Boy From FreecloudDavid BowieG major129BPM
- Dahomey DanceJohn ColtraneG major129BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 129 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMCat Stevens
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id a3fa1f81-c446-4beb-8937-16d3ff341d8c.