Smashing Pumpkins · Siamese Dream
Quiet
Quiet is in E major at 99 beats per minute.
Tempo
99 BPM · Andantemedian of 136 analyses · 98.7–99 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 606.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.81dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.932Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.032Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 99 BPM one beat lasts 606.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 151.5 ms and a dotted eighth 454.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 198. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 cents above 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 2.81 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 0.932 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 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 99 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2424.2 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1212.1 | 0.83 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 909.1 | 1.1 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 606.1 | 1.65 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 404 | 2.48 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 454.5 | 2.2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 303 | 3.3 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 202 | 4.95 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 227.3 | 4.4 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 151.5 | 6.6 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 101 | 9.9 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 75.8 | 13.2 |
Half time 49.5 BPM · double time 198 BPM. Every row is one beat (606.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Wanna Be Your ManThe BeatlesE major99BPM
- My WeaknessMobyE major99BPM
- An EncounterThe 1975E major100BPM
- Rehumanize YourselfThe PoliceE major99BPM
- Dark as a DungeonJohnny CashE major100BPM
- RobbersThe 1975E major100BPM
- Man Out of TimeElvis Costello & The AttractionsE major98BPM
- Song for the ManBeastie BoysE major98BPM
- Love YourselfJustin BieberE major100BPM
- We Don’t Talk AnymoreCharlie Puth feat. Selena GomezE major100BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 99 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 99 BPME major at 90–99 BPMSmashing Pumpkins
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 199069ef-ff18-48a7-95f3-caaa9ee20b10.