Green Day · 21st Century Breakdown

21 Guns

21 Guns is in F major at 163.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 174 analyses · 163.6–163.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
174people who ran the extractor
One beat
366.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.78dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.778Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.989Essentia'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

174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 163.6 BPM one beat lasts 366.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.7 ms and a dotted eighth 275.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 327.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.78 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 0.778 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 164 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note414670.68
Half note2733.51.36
Dotted quarter1.5550.11.82
Quarter note (one beat)1366.72.73
Quarter triplet0.667244.54.09
Dotted eighth0.75275.13.64
Eighth note0.5183.45.45
Eighth triplet0.333122.28.18
Dotted sixteenth0.375137.57.27
Sixteenth note0.2591.710.91
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.116.36
Thirty-second note0.12545.821.81

Half time 81.8 BPM · double time 327.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (366.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)Bruce Springsteen & The E Street BandF major164BPM
  2. TimshelMumford & SonsF major164BPM
  3. Paranoid AndroidRadioheadF major164BPM
  4. BosniaThe CranberriesF major164BPM
  5. Wash.Bon IverF major164BPM
  6. The Wind Cries MaryThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceF major163BPM
  7. Come Back BabyAretha FranklinF major163BPM
  8. Every Time You Go AwayPaul YoungF major164BPM
  9. Peace TrainCat StevensF major165BPM
  10. Pale Blue EyesThe Velvet UndergroundF major165BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 164 BPMF major at 160–169 BPMGreen Day

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1c98f48c-b617-489c-adb6-31aae5038636.