Nat King Cole · Midnight Flyer / Sweet Bird of Youth
Midnight Flyer
Midnight Flyer is in G major at 124.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 127 analyses · 124.9–124.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 127people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 480.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 445.4Hz · +21 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.01dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.945Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.168Essentia'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
127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 124.9 BPM one beat lasts 480.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.1 ms and a dotted eighth 360.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 249.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.4 Hz, which is 21 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 4.01 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 0.945 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1921.5 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 960.8 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 720.6 | 1.39 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 480.4 | 2.08 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 320.3 | 3.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 360.3 | 2.78 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 240.2 | 4.16 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 160.1 | 6.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 180.1 | 5.55 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120.1 | 8.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.1 | 12.49 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60 | 16.65 |
Half time 62.5 BPM · double time 249.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (480.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Always on My MindPet Shop BoysG major125BPM
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- AishaJohn ColtraneG major125BPM
- PhysicalOlivia Newton‐JohnG major124BPM
- Can’t Get You Off My MindLenny KravitzG major124BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 125 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMNat King Cole
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 25267e84-dfde-454a-9f61-40dd7d8c413e.