Creedence Clearwater Revival · Cosmo’s Factory
Lookin’ out My Back Door
Lookin’ out My Back Door is in F major at 105.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
105 BPM · Andantemedian of 178 analyses · 105.1–105.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 178people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 569.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.74dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.903Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.113Essentia'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
178 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 178 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 105.3 BPM one beat lasts 569.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.5 ms and a dotted eighth 427.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 210.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 4.74 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 0.903 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 105 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2279.2 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1139.6 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 854.7 | 1.17 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 569.8 | 1.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 379.9 | 2.63 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 427.4 | 2.34 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 284.9 | 3.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 189.9 | 5.27 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 213.7 | 4.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 142.5 | 7.02 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 95 | 10.53 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71.2 | 14.04 |
Half time 52.7 BPM · double time 210.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (569.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 105 BPMF major at 100–109 BPMCreedence Clearwater Revival
MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id 962dc1be-6d73-4c4b-990e-01193319e34b.