Supertramp · Crime of the Century

School

School is in A minor at 90.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

90 BPM · Andantemedian of 196 analyses · 90.2–91.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
196people who ran the extractor
One beat
663.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
8.31dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.274Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.955Essentia'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. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 196 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 90.2 to 91.3 BPM.

At 90.4 BPM one beat lasts 663.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 165.9 ms and a dotted eighth 497.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 180.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 8.31 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 0.274 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 90 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42654.90.38
Half note21327.40.75
Dotted quarter1.5995.61
Quarter note (one beat)1663.71.51
Quarter triplet0.667442.52.26
Dotted eighth0.75497.82.01
Eighth note0.5331.93.01
Eighth triplet0.333221.24.52
Dotted sixteenth0.375248.94.02
Sixteenth note0.25165.96.03
Sixteenth triplet0.167110.69.04
Thirty-second note0.1258312.05

Half time 45.2 BPM · double time 180.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (663.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. SchoolCalvin HarrisB major112BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. War Pigs / Luke’s WallBlack SabbathA minor90BPM
  2. One for the RoadArctic MonkeysA minor91BPM
  3. Fight Fire With FireMetallicaA minor90BPM
  4. Good Life2Pac featuring Big Syke & E.D.I of the OUTLAWZA minor90BPM
  5. SlideDidoA minor91BPM
  6. Je sais pasCéline DionA minor90BPM
  7. RinzlerDaft PunkA minor90BPM
  8. CloserNine Inch NailsA minor90BPM
  9. Heathenstwenty one pilotsA minor90BPM
  10. In My FeelingsLana Del ReyA minor90BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 90 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 90 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPMSupertramp

MusicBrainz collapses 29 recording ids into this one. Recording id c261fb61-fc73-4093-9cce-3eb39057f539.