Pink Floyd · The Division Bell

A Great Day for Freedom

A Great Day for Freedom is in C major at 84.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

84 BPM · Andantemedian of 175 analyses · 83.4–84.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
175people who ran the extractor
One beat
712.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.78dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.505Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.993Essentia'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

175 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 175 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 83.4 to 84.6 BPM.

At 84.2 BPM one beat lasts 712.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 178.1 ms and a dotted eighth 534.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 168.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 3.78 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 0.505 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 84 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42850.40.35
Half note21425.20.7
Dotted quarter1.51068.90.94
Quarter note (one beat)1712.61.4
Quarter triplet0.667475.12.11
Dotted eighth0.75534.41.87
Eighth note0.5356.32.81
Eighth triplet0.333237.54.21
Dotted sixteenth0.375267.23.74
Sixteenth note0.25178.15.61
Sixteenth triplet0.167118.88.42
Thirty-second note0.12589.111.23

Half time 42.1 BPM · double time 168.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (712.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. All My LifeFoo FightersC major84BPM
  2. Victim of LoveEaglesC major85BPM
  3. JulietNeil DiamondC major85BPM
  4. AlbertaEric ClaptonC major85BPM
  5. If Things Were PerfectMobyC major83BPM
  6. Watching the WheelsJohn LennonC major83BPM
  7. Money MadeAC/DCC major86BPM
  8. Set Adrift on Memory BlissBackstreet BoysC major83BPM
  9. PinkAerosmithC major86BPM
  10. Interlude (That’s Love)Chance the RapperC major86BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 84 BPMC major at 80–89 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5b075c4a-a77d-46df-ba49-ba4745445a1d.