TempoPeek

Green Day · Dookie

Coming Clean

Coming Clean is in B flat major at 172.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

172 BPM · Vivacemedian of 204 analyses · 172.3–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
204people who ran the extractor
One beat
348.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.1Hz · +12 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.72dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.964Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.22Essentia'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

204 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 204 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 172.3 BPM one beat lasts 348.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 87.1 ms and a dotted eighth 261.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 86.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 344.6. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.1 Hz, which is 12 cents above 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 2.72 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 0.964 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 B flat 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 172 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41392.90.72
Half note2696.51.44
Dotted quarter1.5522.31.91
Quarter note (one beat)1348.22.87
Quarter triplet0.667232.24.31
Dotted eighth0.75261.23.83
Eighth note0.5174.15.74
Eighth triplet0.333116.18.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375130.67.66
Sixteenth note0.2587.111.49
Sixteenth triplet0.1675817.23
Thirty-second note0.12543.522.97

Half time 86.2 BPM · double time 344.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (348.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Rockin’ RobinMichael JacksonB♭ major172BPM
  2. Runnin’ AroundThe B‐52sB♭ major172BPM
  3. How You Remind MeNickelbackB♭ major172BPM
  4. I Belong to YouLenny KravitzB♭ major172BPM
  5. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)Lou BegaB♭ major172BPM
  6. High All the Time50 CentB♭ major172BPM
  7. Dice GameThe Cool KidsB♭ major172BPM
  8. Coat of Many ColorsDolly PartonB♭ major172BPM
  9. Somewhere Only We KnowLily AllenB♭ major172BPM
  10. All Out2Pac featuring OUTLAWZB♭ major172BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 172 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 172 BPMB♭ major at 170–179 BPMGreen Day

MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id ff6a854d-d2c3-469d-b60a-7b982f66cb9c.