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What a Shame
What a Shame is in G major at 127.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 127.2–127.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 471.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.98dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.855Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.102Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 127.3 BPM one beat lasts 471.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.8 ms and a dotted eighth 353.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.98 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 0.855 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 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1885.3 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 942.7 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 707 | 1.41 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 471.3 | 2.12 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 314.2 | 3.18 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 353.5 | 2.83 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 235.7 | 4.24 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 157.1 | 6.37 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 176.7 | 5.66 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.8 | 8.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.6 | 12.73 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.9 | 16.97 |
Half time 63.7 BPM · double time 254.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (471.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Chimes of FreedomThe ByrdsG major127BPM
- Little Bad GirlDavid Guetta feat. Taio Cruz & LudacrisG major127BPM
- PhœnixDaft PunkG major127BPM
- End of the DayBeckG major127BPM
- TechnologicDaft PunkG major128BPM
- Out of TimeThe Rolling StonesG major128BPM
- Roll With ItOasisG major127BPM
- Beautiful NoiseNeil DiamondG major127BPM
- SummerCalvin HarrisG major128BPM
- Comfortably NumbPink FloydG major127BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 127 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMThe Rolling Stones
MusicBrainz collapses 46 recording ids into this one. Recording id cf93a574-aa35-4cce-88c5-bb85e5c92ed3.