Green Day · Warning:
Warning
Warning is in D major at 121 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 216 analyses · 121–121 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 216people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 495.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.32dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.967Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.278Essentia'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
216 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 216 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 121 BPM one beat lasts 495.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124 ms and a dotted eighth 371.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 242. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 2.32 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 0.967 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1983.5 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 991.7 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 743.8 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 495.9 | 2.02 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 330.6 | 3.03 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 371.9 | 2.69 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 247.9 | 4.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.3 | 6.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186 | 5.38 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124 | 8.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.6 | 12.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62 | 16.13 |
Half time 60.5 BPM · double time 242 BPM. Every row is one beat (495.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Don’t Want to Miss a ThingAerosmithD major121BPM
- Anything GoesAC/DCD major121BPM
- Proud MaryCreedence Clearwater RevivalD major121BPM
- The Bells of RhymneyThe ByrdsD major121BPM
- Raspberry BeretPrince and The RevolutionD major121BPM
- Cover MeBruce SpringsteenD major121BPM
- Today I Sing the BluesAretha FranklinD major121BPM
- Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?)David BowieD major120BPM
- On Melancholy HillGorillazD major120BPM
- Good to Me as I Am to YouAretha FranklinD major120BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 121 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMGreen Day
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 923988e9-2c11-439d-adf7-e6137ccf67b1.