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.
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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2850.4 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1425.2 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1068.9 | 0.94 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 712.6 | 1.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 475.1 | 2.11 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 534.4 | 1.87 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 356.3 | 2.81 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 237.5 | 4.21 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 267.2 | 3.74 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 178.1 | 5.61 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 118.8 | 8.42 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.1 | 11.23 |
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
- All My LifeFoo FightersC major84BPM
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- AlbertaEric ClaptonC major85BPM
- If Things Were PerfectMobyC major83BPM
- Watching the WheelsJohn LennonC major83BPM
- Money MadeAC/DCC major86BPM
- Set Adrift on Memory BlissBackstreet BoysC major83BPM
- PinkAerosmithC major86BPM
- 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.