TempoPeek

Queen · A Night at the Opera

Sweet Lady

Sweet Lady is in A minor at 118.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 197 analyses · 118.2–119.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
197people who ran the extractor
One beat
506.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.87dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.879Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.113Essentia'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

197 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 197 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 118.2 to 119.7 BPM.

At 118.4 BPM one beat lasts 506.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.7 ms and a dotted eighth 380.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 236.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 2.87 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 0.879 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 118 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note420270.49
Half note21013.50.99
Dotted quarter1.5760.11.32
Quarter note (one beat)1506.81.97
Quarter triplet0.667337.82.96
Dotted eighth0.75380.12.63
Eighth note0.5253.43.95
Eighth triplet0.333168.95.92
Dotted sixteenth0.3751905.26
Sixteenth note0.25126.77.89
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.511.84
Thirty-second note0.12563.315.79

Half time 59.2 BPM · double time 236.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (506.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Le FreakChicA minor119BPM
  2. Is There Anybody Out There?Pink FloydA minor118BPM
  3. RescueAshantiA minor118BPM
  4. Ride On TimeBlack BoxA minor119BPM
  5. HeadPrinceA minor119BPM
  6. Smooth CriminalMichael JacksonA minor118BPM
  7. No One Like YouScorpionsA minor118BPM
  8. SittingCat StevensA minor118BPM
  9. KlavierRammsteinA minor118BPM
  10. Stacy’s MomFountains of WayneA minor118BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 118 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMQueen

MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id e787ac41-3aba-41b6-ad05-63ddb02b50b8.