Lynyrd Skynyrd · (pronounced ’lĕh‐’nérd ’skin‐’nérd)
Free Bird
Free Bird is in C major at 151.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
151 BPM · Allegromedian of 145 analyses · 151–151.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 74%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 145people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 396.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.954Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.287Essentia'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
145 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 74% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 145 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 151.2 BPM one beat lasts 396.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99.2 ms and a dotted eighth 297.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 302.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.6 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 0.954 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 151 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1587.3 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 793.7 | 1.26 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 595.2 | 1.68 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 396.8 | 2.52 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 264.6 | 3.78 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 297.6 | 3.36 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 198.4 | 5.04 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 132.3 | 7.56 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 148.8 | 6.72 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99.2 | 10.08 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.1 | 15.12 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.6 | 20.16 |
Half time 75.6 BPM · double time 302.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (396.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- GuiltyBarbra Streisand with Barry GibbC major151BPM
- Devil’s Right HandJohnny CashC major151BPM
- Can You Feel the Love TonightJoseph Williams and Sally Dworsky with Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, and Kristle EdwardsC major151BPM
- Look What You’ve DoneJetC major151BPM
- ImagineJohn LennonC major152BPM
- I’m Gonna CrawlLed ZeppelinC major152BPM
- Little QueenieChuck BerryC major152BPM
- Anyone Can Play GuitarRadioheadC major151BPM
- Only the Good Die YoungBilly JoelC major152BPM
- StagesZZ TopC major152BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 151 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 151 BPMC major at 150–159 BPMLynyrd Skynyrd
MusicBrainz collapses 158 recording ids into this one. Recording id 63d628c5-c48c-46c9-9b8e-8d795f6ed225.