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Yer Blues
Yer Blues is in G sharp minor at 152.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
152 BPM · Allegromedian of 274 analyses · 152.2–152.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 83%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 274people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 394milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 455Hz · +58 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.19dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.884Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.052Essentia'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
274 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 274 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 152.3 BPM one beat lasts 394 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.5 ms and a dotted eighth 295.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 304.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 455 Hz, which is 58 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.19 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 0.884 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 G sharp 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 G♯ minor
Each of these differs from G♯ 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 152 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1575.8 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 787.9 | 1.27 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 590.9 | 1.69 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 394 | 2.54 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 262.6 | 3.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 295.5 | 3.38 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 197 | 5.08 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 131.3 | 7.62 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 147.7 | 6.77 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.5 | 10.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.7 | 15.23 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.2 | 20.31 |
Half time 76.2 BPM · double time 304.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (394 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Take Up Thy Stethoscope and WalkPink FloydG♯ minor152BPM
- Cats in the CradleUgly Kid JoeG♯ minor152BPM
- BeautifulCarole KingG♯ minor153BPM
- It’s So EasyGuns N’ RosesG♯ minor151BPM
- Move OnDavid BowieG♯ minor150BPM
- Lick and a PromiseAerosmithG♯ minor150BPM
- Voodoo PeopleThe ProdigyG♯ minor149BPM
- 6 ManDrakeG♯ minor156BPM
- Losing GripAvril LavigneG♯ minor157BPM
- SatisfactionOtis ReddingG♯ minor147BPM
Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G sharp minorAll songs at 152 BPMG♯ minor at 150–159 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 45 recording ids into this one. Recording id 35e2412a-9847-43c2-b4b3-e250df059716.