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The Beach Boys · California Girls

California Girls

California Girls is in B major at 115.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 152 analyses · 114.5–116.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
84%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
152people who ran the extractor
One beat
520.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.6Hz · -21.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.799Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.053Essentia'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

152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 84% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 114.5 to 116.3 BPM.

At 115.3 BPM one beat lasts 520.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 130.1 ms and a dotted eighth 390.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 230.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.6 Hz, which is 21.5 cents below 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 4.93 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 0.799 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 115 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42081.50.48
Half note21040.80.96
Dotted quarter1.5780.61.28
Quarter note (one beat)1520.41.92
Quarter triplet0.667346.92.88
Dotted eighth0.75390.32.56
Eighth note0.5260.23.84
Eighth triplet0.333173.55.77
Dotted sixteenth0.375195.15.12
Sixteenth note0.25130.17.69
Sixteenth triplet0.16786.711.53
Thirty-second note0.1256515.37

Half time 57.7 BPM · double time 230.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (520.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. CondemnationDepeche ModeB major116BPM
  2. Word UpCameoB major116BPM
  3. Lolita (trop jeune pour aimer)Céline DionB major116BPM
  4. 1984Van HalenB major114BPM
  5. Hole in the SkyBlack SabbathB major117BPM
  6. All I DoStevie WonderB major117BPM
  7. Good Day SunshineThe BeatlesB major117BPM
  8. Lord Only KnowsBeckB major117BPM
  9. True BlueMadonnaB major118BPM
  10. Mr. DayJohn ColtraneB major113BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 115 BPMB major at 110–119 BPMThe Beach Boys

MusicBrainz collapses 113 recording ids into this one. Recording id a246698b-add1-4b9e-91ce-c596e80e6d85.