Pink Floyd · Ummagumma

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Careful With That Axe, Eugene is in G minor at 92 beats per minute.

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Tempo

92 BPM · Andantemedian of 163 analyses · 91.3–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
68%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
163people who ran the extractor
One beat
652.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.9dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.381Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.055Essentia'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

163 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 68% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 163 readings; 72% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 91.3 to 172.3 BPM.

At 92 BPM one beat lasts 652.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163 ms and a dotted eighth 489.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46 BPM, counted twice as fast 184. 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 4.9 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 0.381 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from G minor 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 92 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42608.70.38
Half note21304.30.77
Dotted quarter1.5978.31.02
Quarter note (one beat)1652.21.53
Quarter triplet0.667434.82.3
Dotted eighth0.75489.12.04
Eighth note0.5326.13.07
Eighth triplet0.333217.44.6
Dotted sixteenth0.375244.64.09
Sixteenth note0.251636.13
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.79.2
Thirty-second note0.12581.512.27

Half time 46 BPM · double time 184 BPM. Every row is one beat (652.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The National AnthemRadioheadG minor92BPM
  2. BlurThriceG minor91BPM
  3. Dream a Little Dream of MeLouis ArmstrongG minor91BPM
  4. Fuck Friendz2PacG minor93BPM
  5. Love of My LifeSantana featuring Dave Matthews & Carter BeaufordG minor93BPM
  6. Alone in KyotoAirG minor90BPM
  7. Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?The BeatlesG minor94BPM
  8. I Shot the SheriffEric ClaptonG minor94BPM
  9. JanineDavid BowieG minor89BPM
  10. If We Could Start OverCéline DionG minor89BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 92 BPMG minor at 90–99 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 297 recording ids into this one. Recording id 26638130-0215-466e-9ab2-697afcb63ba5.