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The Trashmen · Surfin' Bird

Surfin’ Bird

Surfin’ Bird is in E flat major at 99.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

100 BPM · Andantemedian of 157 analyses · 99.3–101.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
83%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
157people who ran the extractor
One beat
603milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
452.6Hz · +49 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.17dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.963Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.126Essentia'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

157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 99.3 to 101.5 BPM.

At 99.5 BPM one beat lasts 603 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 150.8 ms and a dotted eighth 452.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 199. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.6 Hz, which is 49 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 2.17 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 0.963 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 flat 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 E♭ major

Each of these differs from E♭ 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 100 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42412.10.41
Half note212060.83
Dotted quarter1.5904.51.11
Quarter note (one beat)16031.66
Quarter triplet0.6674022.49
Dotted eighth0.75452.32.21
Eighth note0.5301.53.32
Eighth triplet0.3332014.98
Dotted sixteenth0.375226.14.42
Sixteenth note0.25150.86.63
Sixteenth triplet0.167100.59.95
Thirty-second note0.12575.413.27

Half time 49.8 BPM · double time 199 BPM. Every row is one beat (603 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Surfin’ BirdRamonesA major97BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. But Not for MeJohn ColtraneE♭ major100BPM
  2. Mysterious WaysU2E♭ major100BPM
  3. ArenaDaft PunkE♭ major100BPM
  4. TakeawayThe Chainsmokers & ILLENIUM ft. Lennon StellaE♭ major100BPM
  5. HonestThe ChainsmokersE♭ major100BPM
  6. UGH!The 1975E♭ major100BPM
  7. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)Arcade FireE♭ major100BPM
  8. Right Next Door to HellGuns N’ RosesE♭ major100BPM
  9. The Modern ThingsBjörkE♭ major100BPM
  10. Follow Your BlissThe B‐52sE♭ major99BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 100 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 100 BPME♭ major at 90–99 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 125 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0f44f0bd-4f90-4e9a-aff4-21a3790eaf74.