The Allman Brothers Band · One More Ride – Idle Wild South Outtakes
Midnight Rider
Midnight Rider is in D major at 94.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
95 BPM · Andantemedian of 332 analyses · 90.4–163.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 80%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 332people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 634.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.4Hz · +25 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.91dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.814Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.054Essentia'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
332 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 332 readings; 68% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 90.4 to 163.7 BPM.
At 94.5 BPM one beat lasts 634.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 158.7 ms and a dotted eighth 476.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 189. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.4 Hz, which is 25 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 3.91 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 0.814 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 95 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2539.7 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1269.8 | 0.79 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 952.4 | 1.05 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 634.9 | 1.58 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 423.3 | 2.36 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 476.2 | 2.1 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 317.5 | 3.15 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 211.6 | 4.72 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 238.1 | 4.2 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 158.7 | 6.3 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 105.8 | 9.45 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 79.4 | 12.6 |
Half time 47.3 BPM · double time 189 BPM. Every row is one beat (634.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Social DiseaseElton JohnD major95BPM
- Running to Stand StillU2D major94BPM
- AppletreeErykah BaduD major95BPM
- The RiverAURORAD major95BPM
- Ode to My FamilyThe CranberriesD major95BPM
- Hide AwayDayaD major95BPM
- Love You Inside OutBee GeesD major95BPM
- VulturesMeat PuppetsD major94BPM
- The Right TimeThe CorrsD major94BPM
- Hangman JuryAerosmithD major95BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 95 BPMD major at 90–99 BPMThe Allman Brothers Band
MusicBrainz collapses 141 recording ids into this one. Recording id a46883a5-be72-4422-a65d-aa5fab6b3406.