TempoPeek

Lady Gaga · Born This Way

Scheiße

Scheiße is in C minor at 130.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

131 BPM · Allegromedian of 149 analyses · 130.7–131 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
149people who ran the extractor
One beat
458.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.3dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.967Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.58Essentia'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

149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 130.8 BPM one beat lasts 458.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.7 ms and a dotted eighth 344 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 261.6. 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 2.3 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 C minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from C minor 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 131 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41834.90.55
Half note2917.41.09
Dotted quarter1.5688.11.45
Quarter note (one beat)1458.72.18
Quarter triplet0.667305.83.27
Dotted eighth0.753442.91
Eighth note0.5229.44.36
Eighth triplet0.333152.96.54
Dotted sixteenth0.3751725.81
Sixteenth note0.25114.78.72
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.513.08
Thirty-second note0.12557.317.44

Half time 65.4 BPM · double time 261.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (458.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Don’t Give Up (original radio edit)Chicane feat. Bryan AdamsC minor131BPM
  2. Hell After ThisDidoC minor130BPM
  3. Sexy and I Know ItLMFAOC minor130BPM
  4. Fill Me InCraig DavidC minor133BPM
  5. A New Machine, Part 2Pink FloydC minor129BPM
  6. Boy With a ProblemElvis Costello & The AttractionsC minor129BPM
  7. Black SabbathBlack SabbathC minor133BPM
  8. Be Quick or Be DeadIron MaidenC minor129BPM
  9. Let’s Go to BedThe CureC minor128BPM
  10. Love ShackThe B‐52sC minor134BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 131 BPMC minor at 130–139 BPMLady Gaga

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id ef8320cc-d8c1-4e26-911c-8927f94b53ef.