Daft Punk · Alive 1997
Alive 1997
Alive 1997 is in E flat minor at 135.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 143 analyses · 135.8–135.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 143people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 441.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.94dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.627Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.472Essentia'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
143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 135.8 BPM one beat lasts 441.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.5 ms and a dotted eighth 331.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.6. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 2.94 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 0.627 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 flat 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 E♭ minor
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1767.3 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 883.7 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 662.7 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 441.8 | 2.26 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 294.6 | 3.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 331.4 | 3.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.9 | 4.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.3 | 6.79 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.7 | 6.04 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.5 | 9.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.6 | 13.58 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.2 | 18.11 |
Half time 67.9 BPM · double time 271.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BiscuitPortisheadE♭ minor136BPM
- IsobelDidoE♭ minor136BPM
- Le vol d’un angeCéline DionE♭ minor134BPM
- Make LoveDaft PunkE♭ minor133BPM
- A Place for My HeadLinkin ParkE♭ minor133BPM
- Beat ItMichael JacksonE♭ minor139BPM
- Civil WarGuns N’ RosesE♭ minor140BPM
- Shanti / AshtangiMadonnaE♭ minor140BPM
- Kiss KissChris Brown feat. T‐PainE♭ minor140BPM
- Cold as IceForeignerE♭ minor131BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 136 BPME♭ minor at 130–139 BPMDaft Punk
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 2bf44ad4-4c09-4c40-bb85-098dad5abe5b.