Don McLean · American Pie

Vincent

Vincent is in G major at 104.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

105 BPM · Andantemedian of 170 analyses · 99.8–125.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
170people who ran the extractor
One beat
572.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.96dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.556Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.058Essentia'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

170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 18% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 99.8 to 125.8 BPM. That is a recording the detector cannot settle on — the readings are spread far enough that the median is a summary of a disagreement rather than a measurement anybody should trust to the decimal.

At 104.8 BPM one beat lasts 572.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 143.1 ms and a dotted eighth 429.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 209.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 3.96 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 0.556 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 105 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42290.10.44
Half note211450.87
Dotted quarter1.5858.81.16
Quarter note (one beat)1572.51.75
Quarter triplet0.667381.72.62
Dotted eighth0.75429.42.33
Eighth note0.5286.33.49
Eighth triplet0.333190.85.24
Dotted sixteenth0.375214.74.66
Sixteenth note0.25143.16.99
Sixteenth triplet0.16795.410.48
Thirty-second note0.12571.613.97

Half time 52.4 BPM · double time 209.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (572.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Wake Me Up When September EndsGreen DayG major105BPM
  2. Ring of FireJohnny CashG major105BPM
  3. The Way HomeChris BottiG major105BPM
  4. All You Need Is LoveThe BeatlesG major105BPM
  5. Alphabet St.PrinceG major104BPM
  6. FireRed Hot Chili PeppersG major105BPM
  7. It Ain’t Me BabeBob DylanG major105BPM
  8. Raining in My HeartBuddy Holly & The CricketsG major105BPM
  9. Hard to ConcentrateRed Hot Chili PeppersG major105BPM
  10. Time to Say GoodbyeSarah Brightman & Andrea BocelliG major106BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 105 BPMG major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5f85e829-50ff-4cc3-872a-bbdd0993f7e3.