TempoPeek

Radiohead · OK Computer

Let Down

Let Down is in A major at 102.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

103 BPM · Andantemedian of 196 analyses · 102.8–103 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
196people who ran the extractor
One beat
583.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.52dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.958Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.03Essentia'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

196 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 196 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 102.9 BPM one beat lasts 583.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 145.8 ms and a dotted eighth 437.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 205.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 2.52 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 0.958 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 103 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42332.40.43
Half note21166.20.86
Dotted quarter1.5874.61.14
Quarter note (one beat)1583.11.72
Quarter triplet0.667388.72.57
Dotted eighth0.75437.32.29
Eighth note0.5291.53.43
Eighth triplet0.333194.45.15
Dotted sixteenth0.375218.74.57
Sixteenth note0.25145.86.86
Sixteenth triplet0.16797.210.29
Thirty-second note0.12572.913.72

Half time 51.5 BPM · double time 205.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (583.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Lust for LifeIggy PopA major103BPM
  2. White RiotThe ClashA major103BPM
  3. Crooked TeethDeath Cab for CutieA major103BPM
  4. This Must Be My DreamThe 1975A major103BPM
  5. BonesRadioheadA major103BPM
  6. The RoverLed ZeppelinA major103BPM
  7. Mothers of the DisappearedU2A major103BPM
  8. I Can’t See NobodyBee GeesA major103BPM
  9. PullBlind MelonA major103BPM
  10. How to Disappear CompletelyRadioheadA major102BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 103 BPMA major at 100–109 BPMRadiohead

MusicBrainz collapses 48 recording ids into this one. Recording id 47b02a82-c3bf-4647-b894-dd1c8f608e7f.