Shoot the Moon

166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 149.2 to 150.5 BPM.

At 149.3 BPM one beat lasts 401.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.5 ms and a dotted eighth 301.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 298.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 5.24 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 0.491 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.