TempoPeek

Green Day · nimrod.

King for a Day

King for a Day is in E major at 147.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

148 BPM · Allegromedian of 171 analyses · 147.4–147.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
171people who ran the extractor
One beat
406.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
1.58dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.98Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.489Essentia'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

171 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 171 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 147.6 BPM one beat lasts 406.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.6 ms and a dotted eighth 304.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 295.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 1.58 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 0.98 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 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 148 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note416260.62
Half note28131.23
Dotted quarter1.5609.81.64
Quarter note (one beat)1406.52.46
Quarter triplet0.6672713.69
Dotted eighth0.75304.93.28
Eighth note0.5203.34.92
Eighth triplet0.333135.57.38
Dotted sixteenth0.375152.46.56
Sixteenth note0.25101.69.84
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.814.76
Thirty-second note0.12550.819.68

Half time 73.8 BPM · double time 295.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (406.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. How Can You Mend a Broken HeartAl GreenE major148BPM
  2. Let’s Go Trippin’Dick Dale and His Del‐TonesE major148BPM
  3. Helpless When She SmilesBackstreet BoysE major148BPM
  4. Born to RunBruce SpringsteenE major147BPM
  5. Mama’s BoyRamonesE major147BPM
  6. The Ballad of Curtis LoewLynyrd SkynyrdE major147BPM
  7. Poison HeartRamonesE major149BPM
  8. Good Morning Little SchoolgirlThe YardbirdsE major146BPM
  9. The Last SongFoo FightersE major149BPM
  10. Planet TelexRadioheadE major149BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 148 BPME major at 140–149 BPMGreen Day

MusicBrainz collapses 22 recording ids into this one. Recording id 129a0e28-e92f-4db4-88f5-5dcf4bdd7752.