TempoPeek

The Doors · L.A. Woman

The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)

The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) is in E minor at 119.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 130 analyses · 118.7–119.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
130people who ran the extractor
One beat
502.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.29dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.852Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.209Essentia'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

130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 118.7 to 119.8 BPM.

At 119.5 BPM one beat lasts 502.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.5 ms and a dotted eighth 376.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 239. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.29 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 0.852 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42008.40.5
Half note21004.21
Dotted quarter1.5753.11.33
Quarter note (one beat)1502.11.99
Quarter triplet0.667334.72.99
Dotted eighth0.75376.62.66
Eighth note0.52513.98
Eighth triplet0.333167.45.98
Dotted sixteenth0.375188.35.31
Sixteenth note0.25125.57.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.711.95
Thirty-second note0.12562.815.93

Half time 59.8 BPM · double time 239 BPM. Every row is one beat (502.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Beds Are BurningMidnight OilE minor119BPM
  2. Invisible ChoirsScannerE minor120BPM
  3. StrangeloveDepeche ModeE minor119BPM
  4. DiscothèqueU2E minor120BPM
  5. Boogie NightsHeatwaveE minor119BPM
  6. Orange CrushR.E.M.E minor121BPM
  7. Stay High (Habits remix)Tove Lo feat. Hippie SabotageE minor121BPM
  8. For All the CowsFoo FightersE minor118BPM
  9. Time of the SeasonThe ZombiesE minor117BPM
  10. The KillThirty Seconds to MarsE minor122BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 120 BPME minor at 110–119 BPMThe Doors

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 67009b9b-6981-4a9e-9899-eeed9494f6ca.