Creedence Clearwater Revival · Green River
Commotion
Commotion is in G minor at 127.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 264 analyses · 126.9–127.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 43%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 264people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 472.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.907Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.207Essentia'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
264 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 43% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 264 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 127.1 BPM one beat lasts 472.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118 ms and a dotted eighth 354.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 cents above 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 3.6 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 0.907 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 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 G minor
Each of these differs from G 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1888.3 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 944.1 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 708.1 | 1.41 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 472.1 | 2.12 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 314.7 | 3.18 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 354.1 | 2.82 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 236 | 4.24 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 157.4 | 6.36 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 177 | 5.65 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 118 | 8.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.7 | 12.71 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59 | 16.95 |
Half time 63.6 BPM · double time 254.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (472.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- We’re an American BandGrand Funk RailroadG minor128BPM
- Indo Silver ClubDaft PunkG minor126BPM
- Dance to the MusicSly & the Family StoneG minor128BPM
- Smells Like Teen Spirit2CELLOSG minor126BPM
- You Ain’t Got a Hold on MeAC/DCG minor128BPM
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest WordElton JohnG minor129BPM
- Losing HandRay CharlesG minor126BPM
- Lazy BirdJohn ColtraneG minor126BPM
- Chop Suey!System of a DownG minor129BPM
- Nature BoyMiles DavisG minor129BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 127 BPMG minor at 120–129 BPMCreedence Clearwater Revival
MusicBrainz collapses 39 recording ids into this one. Recording id 946252a3-aecd-4fd1-98ec-f4f3747bef57.