TempoPeek

Radiohead · Pablo Honey

How Do You?

How Do You? is in A major at 146.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

147 BPM · Allegromedian of 129 analyses · 146.7–146.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
129people who ran the extractor
One beat
409milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.23dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.95Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.974Essentia'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

129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 146.7 BPM one beat lasts 409 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.2 ms and a dotted eighth 306.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 293.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.23 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 0.95 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 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 147 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note416360.61
Half note28181.22
Dotted quarter1.5613.51.63
Quarter note (one beat)14092.44
Quarter triplet0.667272.73.67
Dotted eighth0.75306.73.26
Eighth note0.5204.54.89
Eighth triplet0.333136.37.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375153.46.52
Sixteenth note0.25102.29.78
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.214.67
Thirty-second note0.12551.119.56

Half time 73.4 BPM · double time 293.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (409 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Cemetery GatesPanteraA major147BPM
  2. Out of ControlEaglesA major146BPM
  3. Thinking of YouKaty PerryA major147BPM
  4. Meet Me in the MorningBob DylanA major147BPM
  5. It’s a Vibe2 Chainz feat. Ty Dolla $ign, Trey Songz & Jhené AikoA major146BPM
  6. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)John & Yoko / The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community ChoirA major146BPM
  7. De Do Do Do, De Da Da DaThe PoliceA major147BPM
  8. The Last to KnowCéline DionA major146BPM
  9. Travelin’ SoldierDixie ChicksA major146BPM
  10. GuiltyBonnie RaittA major147BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 147 BPMA major at 140–149 BPMRadiohead

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 174e57b1-0a79-4103-92c2-ec3d109347c1.