Guns N’ Roses · Use Your Illusion I
Dust n’ Bones
Dust n’ Bones is in A flat major at 129.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 131 analyses · 129.7–129.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 462.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.58dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.907Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.063Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 129.8 BPM one beat lasts 462.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.6 ms and a dotted eighth 346.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 259.6. 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 2.58 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 0.907 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1849 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 924.5 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 693.4 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 462.2 | 2.16 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 308.2 | 3.25 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 346.7 | 2.88 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 231.1 | 4.33 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 154.1 | 6.49 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 173.3 | 5.77 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.6 | 8.65 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77 | 12.98 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.8 | 17.31 |
Half time 64.9 BPM · double time 259.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (462.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Macchine da guerraAndrea BocelliA♭ major130BPM
- Cool KidsEchosmithA♭ major130BPM
- Song 2BlurA♭ major130BPM
- Night TrainJames BrownA♭ major130BPM
- Oh Baby DollChuck BerryA♭ major130BPM
- ColoursPhil CollinsA♭ major130BPM
- Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)Céline DionA♭ major129BPM
- Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)Céline DionA♭ major129BPM
- Stupid GirlThe Rolling StonesA♭ major131BPM
- ClocksColdplayA♭ major131BPM
Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 130 BPMA♭ major at 120–129 BPMGuns N’ Roses
MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 982fde94-99b8-4743-bb61-a5c008c024ca.