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After Midnight

After Midnight is in C minor at 126.4 beats per minute.

Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 235 analyses · 120–126.7 across the middle eight tenths

Key: C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 65%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 235people who ran the extractor
One beat: 474.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 3.47dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.938Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.062Essentia'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

235 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 65% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 235 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 120 to 126.7 BPM.

At 126.4 BPM one beat lasts 474.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.7 ms and a dotted eighth 356 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 3.47 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 0.938 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 C 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 126 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1898.7	0.53
Half note	2	949.4	1.05
Dotted quarter	1.5	712	1.4
Quarter note (one beat)	1	474.7	2.11
Quarter triplet	0.667	316.5	3.16
Dotted eighth	0.75	356	2.81
Eighth note	0.5	237.3	4.21
Eighth triplet	0.333	158.2	6.32
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	178	5.62
Sixteenth note	0.25	118.7	8.43
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	79.1	12.64
Thirty-second note	0.125	59.3	16.85

Half time 63.2 BPM · double time 252.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (474.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

After MidnightJ.J. CaleD minor98BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minor All songs at 126 BPM C minor at 120–129 BPM Eric Clapton

MusicBrainz collapses 69 recording ids into this one. Recording id 302b4d1b-a1fb-4fe0-99b5-cfe52198fdd9.