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Good Times Roll
Good Times Roll is in E minor at 107.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
108 BPM · Andantemedian of 201 analyses · 107.2–108.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 71%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 201people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 558.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.72dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.69Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.12Essentia'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
201 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 71% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 201 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 107.2 to 108.9 BPM.
At 107.5 BPM one beat lasts 558.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.5 ms and a dotted eighth 418.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 215. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 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 3.72 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 0.69 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 E 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 108 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2232.6 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1116.3 | 0.9 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 837.2 | 1.19 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 558.1 | 1.79 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 372.1 | 2.69 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 418.6 | 2.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 279.1 | 3.58 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 186 | 5.38 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 209.3 | 4.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 139.5 | 7.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93 | 10.75 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 69.8 | 14.33 |
Half time 53.8 BPM · double time 215 BPM. Every row is one beat (558.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- This Is the DayThe CranberriesE minor107BPM
- BlindingFlorence + the MachineE minor108BPM
- Lily Was HereDavid A. Stewart featuring Candy DulferE minor108BPM
- PitifulAretha FranklinE minor108BPM
- More Than a WomanBee GeesE minor106BPM
- Oh WellFleetwood MacE minor106BPM
- Cirrus MinorPink FloydE minor105BPM
- What Do You Want From MePink FloydE minor104BPM
- 7 DaysCraig DavidE minor111BPM
- Magic Carpet RideSteppenwolfE minor111BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 108 BPME minor at 100–109 BPMThe Cars
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 00dd0b4f-3375-4508-985e-601ab213a6d7.