Johnny Cash · The Rambler
No Earthly Good
No Earthly Good is in D flat major at 165 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 141 analyses · 164.9–172.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 82%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 141people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 363.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.8dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.817Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.084Essentia'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
141 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 82% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 141 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 164.9 to 172.3 BPM.
At 165 BPM one beat lasts 363.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.9 ms and a dotted eighth 272.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 330. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 5.8 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 0.817 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 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 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 165 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1454.5 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 727.3 | 1.38 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 545.5 | 1.83 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 363.6 | 2.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 242.4 | 4.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 272.7 | 3.67 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 181.8 | 5.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.2 | 8.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136.4 | 7.33 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 90.9 | 11 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.6 | 16.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.5 | 22 |
Half time 82.5 BPM · double time 330 BPM. Every row is one beat (363.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- River LeaAdeleD♭ major165BPM
- Les Cloches du HameauCéline DionD♭ major166BPM
- Too Much HeavenBee GeesD♭ major166BPM
- Baby Let Me Take You (in My Arms)Detroit EmeraldsD♭ major163BPM
- 21st Century BreakdownGreen DayD♭ major162BPM
- AnthologyThriceD♭ major162BPM
- DreamerOzzy OsbourneD♭ major162BPM
- It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s OverLenny KravitzD♭ major162BPM
- UmbrellaRihanna feat. JAY‐ZD♭ major172BPM
- BurnEllie GouldingD♭ major172BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 165 BPMD♭ major at 160–169 BPMJohnny Cash
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7c9ecb68-85e7-4e05-8e40-3c42702b1ac9.