TempoPeek

George Martin and His Orchestra · Yellow Submarine

Yellow Submarine in Pepperland

Yellow Submarine in Pepperland is in G major at 106.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

106 BPM · Andantemedian of 130 analyses · 106.3–106.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
130people who ran the extractor
One beat
563.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
Dynamics
8.49dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.094Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.913Essentia'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

130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 106.4 BPM one beat lasts 563.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141 ms and a dotted eighth 422.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 212.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 8.49 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 0.094 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 106 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42255.60.44
Half note21127.80.89
Dotted quarter1.5845.91.18
Quarter note (one beat)1563.91.77
Quarter triplet0.667375.92.66
Dotted eighth0.75422.92.36
Eighth note0.52823.55
Eighth triplet0.3331885.32
Dotted sixteenth0.375211.54.73
Sixteenth note0.251417.09
Sixteenth triplet0.1679410.64
Thirty-second note0.12570.514.19

Half time 53.2 BPM · double time 212.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (563.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Southbound AgainDire StraitsG major106BPM
  2. Tales of Brave UlyssesCreamG major107BPM
  3. Little LoverAC/DCG major107BPM
  4. ImpossibleAnberlinG major107BPM
  5. Sound and VisionDavid BowieG major106BPM
  6. The Needle and the Damage DoneNeil YoungG major106BPM
  7. Heaven Can WaitIron MaidenG major106BPM
  8. BebotThe Black Eyed PeasG major107BPM
  9. Stop Draggin’ My Heart AroundStevie Nicks with Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersG major107BPM
  10. HysteriaDef LeppardG major107BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 106 BPMG major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 19e4b015-b51c-4be8-83da-8d6654715b72.