Styx · Paradise Theatre
Too Much Time on My Hands
Too Much Time on My Hands is in D major at 131.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
131 BPM · Allegromedian of 173 analyses · 130.7–131.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 173people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 457.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.878Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.342Essentia'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
173 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 173 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 131.2 BPM one beat lasts 457.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.3 ms and a dotted eighth 343 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 262.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 3.99 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 0.878 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 131 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1829.3 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 914.6 | 1.09 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 686 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 457.3 | 2.19 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 304.9 | 3.28 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 343 | 2.92 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 228.7 | 4.37 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 152.4 | 6.56 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 171.5 | 5.83 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.3 | 8.75 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.2 | 13.12 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.2 | 17.49 |
Half time 65.6 BPM · double time 262.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (457.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The VisitorsABBAD major131BPM
- Shot Down in FlamesAC/DCD major131BPM
- I Think We’re Alone NowTiffanyD major131BPM
- Alone + Easy TargetFoo FightersD major131BPM
- Jessie’s GirlRick SpringfieldD major132BPM
- Even the LosersTom Petty and the HeartbreakersD major132BPM
- William, It Was Really NothingThe SmithsD major131BPM
- Dirty Little GirlElton JohnD major132BPM
- The Best One Yet (The Boy)The Black Eyed PeasD major132BPM
- Up Around the BendCreedence Clearwater RevisitedD major130BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 131 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMStyx
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id ff5575b0-789f-468b-ab4d-de50660ce2b5.