TempoPeek

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Grease

Grease is in E flat minor at 109.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

110 BPM · Moderatomedian of 183 analyses · 109.6–109.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
183people who ran the extractor
One beat
546.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
453.4Hz · +52 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.05dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.697Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.163Essentia'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

183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 109.8 BPM one beat lasts 546.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 136.6 ms and a dotted eighth 409.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 219.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 453.4 Hz, which is 52 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.05 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 0.697 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 110 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42185.80.46
Half note21092.90.91
Dotted quarter1.5819.71.22
Quarter note (one beat)1546.41.83
Quarter triplet0.667364.32.75
Dotted eighth0.75409.82.44
Eighth note0.5273.23.66
Eighth triplet0.333182.15.49
Dotted sixteenth0.375204.94.88
Sixteenth note0.25136.67.32
Sixteenth triplet0.16791.110.98
Thirty-second note0.12568.314.64

Half time 54.9 BPM · double time 219.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (546.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Instant CrushDaft Punk feat. Julian CasablancasE♭ minor110BPM
  2. Hollaback GirlGwen StefaniE♭ minor110BPM
  3. The Way You Look TonightMichael BubléE♭ minor110BPM
  4. DumbNirvanaE♭ minor110BPM
  5. D.S.Michael JacksonE♭ minor109BPM
  6. Play With FireThe Rolling StonesE♭ minor109BPM
  7. Do You Know, Do You Care?Phil CollinsE♭ minor111BPM
  8. Tabloid JunkieMichael JacksonE♭ minor111BPM
  9. Natural BluesMobyE♭ minor108BPM
  10. Lighten UpBeastie BoysE♭ minor108BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 110 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 110 BPME♭ minor at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9300818d-8dcf-48e2-954a-98442a8bbee1.