TempoPeek

The Rolling Stones · Exile on Main St.

Rip This Joint

Rip This Joint is in D major at 98.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

98 BPM · Andantemedian of 165 analyses · 98.1–103.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
50%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
165people who ran the extractor
One beat
610.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.6Hz · +18 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.5dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.921Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.243Essentia'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

165 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 50% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 165 readings; 86% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 98.1 to 103.6 BPM.

At 98.3 BPM one beat lasts 610.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 152.6 ms and a dotted eighth 457.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 196.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.6 Hz, which is 18 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 2.5 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 0.921 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 98 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42441.50.41
Half note21220.80.82
Dotted quarter1.5915.61.09
Quarter note (one beat)1610.41.64
Quarter triplet0.667406.92.46
Dotted eighth0.75457.82.18
Eighth note0.5305.23.28
Eighth triplet0.333203.54.92
Dotted sixteenth0.375228.94.37
Sixteenth note0.25152.66.55
Sixteenth triplet0.167101.79.83
Thirty-second note0.12576.313.11

Half time 49.2 BPM · double time 196.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (610.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Our Last SummerABBAD major98BPM
  2. Over My HeadFleetwood MacD major99BPM
  3. BadU2D major99BPM
  4. Hands and FeetAudio AdrenalineD major99BPM
  5. Heroes Are Hard to FindFleetwood MacD major99BPM
  6. I’m Gonna Love You TooBlondieD major99BPM
  7. Silent NightNeil DiamondD major99BPM
  8. A Passage to BangkokRushD major99BPM
  9. My Beloved MonstereelsD major97BPM
  10. Reindeer(s) Are Better Than PeopleJonathan GroffD major97BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 98 BPMD major at 90–99 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 211 recording ids into this one. Recording id f107e2c9-b65a-4e15-ae98-101b744e0bd4.