TempoPeek

Johnny Cash · American III: Solitary Man

One

One is in C major at 93.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

94 BPM · Andantemedian of 205 analyses · 93.7–93.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
205people who ran the extractor
One beat
640.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.85dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.828Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.094Essentia'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

205 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 205 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 93.7 BPM one beat lasts 640.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 160.1 ms and a dotted eighth 480.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 187.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 3.85 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 0.828 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 94 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42561.40.39
Half note21280.70.78
Dotted quarter1.5960.51.04
Quarter note (one beat)1640.31.56
Quarter triplet0.667426.92.34
Dotted eighth0.75480.32.08
Eighth note0.5320.23.12
Eighth triplet0.333213.44.69
Dotted sixteenth0.375240.14.16
Sixteenth note0.25160.16.25
Sixteenth triplet0.167106.79.37
Thirty-second note0.1258012.49

Half time 46.9 BPM · double time 187.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (640.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. OneU2F major91BPM
  2. OneMetallicaG major111BPM

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

  1. BlackbirdThe BeatlesC major94BPM
  2. TryNelly FurtadoC major94BPM
  3. Living in the Real WorldBlondieC major94BPM
  4. People of the SunRage Against the MachineC major94BPM
  5. FlyingThe BeatlesC major93BPM
  6. The Air Near My FingersThe White StripesC major94BPM
  7. Back to SleepChris BrownC major93BPM
  8. JackassGreen DayC major95BPM
  9. Slide AwayOasisC major95BPM
  10. Ordinary DayVanessa CarltonC major93BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 94 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMJohnny Cash

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 43b13bee-bb41-4e28-95ff-57de098a6144.