TempoPeek

Queen · A Day at the Races

Good Old‐Fashioned Lover Boy

Good Old‐Fashioned Lover Boy is in E flat major at 96.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

96 BPM · Andantemedian of 229 analyses · 96.1–97 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
229people who ran the extractor
One beat
623.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.7Hz · -21 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.8dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.497Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.066Essentia'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

229 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 229 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 96.2 BPM one beat lasts 623.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 155.9 ms and a dotted eighth 467.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 192.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.7 Hz, which is 21 cents below 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 5.8 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 0.497 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 E flat 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 E♭ major

Each of these differs from E♭ 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 96 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42494.80.4
Half note21247.40.8
Dotted quarter1.5935.61.07
Quarter note (one beat)1623.71.6
Quarter triplet0.667415.82.4
Dotted eighth0.75467.82.14
Eighth note0.5311.93.21
Eighth triplet0.333207.94.81
Dotted sixteenth0.375233.94.28
Sixteenth note0.25155.96.41
Sixteenth triplet0.1671049.62
Thirty-second note0.1257812.83

Half time 48.1 BPM · double time 192.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (623.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. You and MeThe CranberriesE♭ major96BPM
  2. Save the Best for LastVanessa WilliamsE♭ major96BPM
  3. Stuck With MeGreen DayE♭ major96BPM
  4. Anywhere IsEnyaE♭ major97BPM
  5. ButterbeanThe B‐52sE♭ major97BPM
  6. Pretty Maids All in a RowEaglesE♭ major98BPM
  7. 86Green DayE♭ major95BPM
  8. The Memory of TreesEnyaE♭ major95BPM
  9. SoldierEminemE♭ major95BPM
  10. What’s Happening BrotherMarvin GayeE♭ major98BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 96 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 96 BPME♭ major at 90–99 BPMQueen

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 312d688d-fdef-43a1-a0b6-71d4afa1f351.