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Hand in Glove

Hand in Glove is in G minor at 142.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

142 BPM · Allegromedian of 222 analyses · 141.9–142.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
47%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
222people who ran the extractor
One beat
421.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
451.3Hz · +44 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.33dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.947Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.257Essentia'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

222 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 47% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 222 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 142.4 BPM one beat lasts 421.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.3 ms and a dotted eighth 316 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 284.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 451.3 Hz, which is 44 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 2.33 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 0.947 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 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 142 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41685.40.59
Half note2842.71.19
Dotted quarter1.56321.58
Quarter note (one beat)1421.32.37
Quarter triplet0.667280.93.56
Dotted eighth0.753163.16
Eighth note0.5210.74.75
Eighth triplet0.333140.47.12
Dotted sixteenth0.3751586.33
Sixteenth note0.25105.39.49
Sixteenth triplet0.16770.214.24
Thirty-second note0.12552.718.99

Half time 71.2 BPM · double time 284.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (421.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. MythBeach HouseG minor142BPM
  2. Hand of DoomBlack SabbathG minor142BPM
  3. The WhispererDavid Guetta feat. SiaG minor143BPM
  4. Get Down, Make LoveQueenG minor144BPM
  5. Heart Full of SoulThe YardbirdsG minor141BPM
  6. Shine On You Crazy DiamondPink FloydG minor144BPM
  7. My LifeDidoG minor141BPM
  8. MoondanceMichael BubléG minor141BPM
  9. PlushStone Temple PilotsG minor144BPM
  10. Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Bryan AdamsG minor145BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 142 BPMG minor at 140–149 BPMThe Smiths

MusicBrainz collapses 157 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5c51973e-c569-473f-bfe7-0a48b70c1879.