TempoPeek

Green Day · Insomniac

Walking Contradiction

Walking Contradiction is in A flat major at 154.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

154 BPM · Allegromedian of 208 analyses · 154.4–154.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
54%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
208people who ran the extractor
One beat
388.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.9Hz · +19 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.07dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.97Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.4Essentia'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

208 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 208 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 154.4 BPM one beat lasts 388.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.2 ms and a dotted eighth 291.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 308.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.9 Hz, which is 19 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 2.07 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 0.97 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 A 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 A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ 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 154 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41554.40.64
Half note2777.21.29
Dotted quarter1.5582.91.72
Quarter note (one beat)1388.62.57
Quarter triplet0.667259.13.86
Dotted eighth0.75291.53.43
Eighth note0.5194.35.15
Eighth triplet0.333129.57.72
Dotted sixteenth0.375145.76.86
Sixteenth note0.2597.210.29
Sixteenth triplet0.16764.815.44
Thirty-second note0.12548.620.59

Half time 77.2 BPM · double time 308.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (388.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Will FollowU2A♭ major155BPM
  2. SunriseNorah JonesA♭ major155BPM
  3. Diamonds on the InsideBen HarperA♭ major155BPM
  4. This Is Your LifeCommodoresA♭ major154BPM
  5. HelloAdeleA♭ major156BPM
  6. My LoveCéline DionA♭ major156BPM
  7. Run To YouWhitney HoustonA♭ major152BPM
  8. Brain StewGreen DayA♭ major152BPM
  9. Bullet the Blue SkyU2A♭ major152BPM
  10. How Did I Fall in Love With YouBackstreet BoysA♭ major152BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 154 BPMA♭ major at 150–159 BPMGreen Day

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 37c855f6-0ebc-444b-9fad-70e97f7a5b50.