TempoPeek

The Velvet Underground · The Velvet Underground & Nico

There She Goes Again

There She Goes Again is in C major at 125.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 146 analyses · 123.9–125.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
146people who ran the extractor
One beat
478.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.9Hz · -20 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.27dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.914Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.998Essentia'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

146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 123.9 to 125.7 BPM.

At 125.5 BPM one beat lasts 478.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.5 ms and a dotted eighth 358.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 251. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.9 Hz, which is 20 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 3.27 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 0.914 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41912.40.52
Half note2956.21.05
Dotted quarter1.5717.11.39
Quarter note (one beat)1478.12.09
Quarter triplet0.667318.73.14
Dotted eighth0.75358.62.79
Eighth note0.52394.18
Eighth triplet0.333159.46.28
Dotted sixteenth0.375179.35.58
Sixteenth note0.25119.58.37
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.712.55
Thirty-second note0.12559.816.73

Half time 62.8 BPM · double time 251 BPM. Every row is one beat (478.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. SunriseThe WhoC major126BPM
  2. When You’re GoneBryan Adams feat. Melanie CC major126BPM
  3. Bel AirLana Del ReyC major126BPM
  4. A New Career in a New TownDavid BowieC major126BPM
  5. Les derniers seront les premiersCéline DionC major125BPM
  6. Silly Love SongsWingsC major125BPM
  7. Band on the RunPaul McCartney & WingsC major125BPM
  8. Sweet WineCreamC major125BPM
  9. Rocking All the WayAC/DCC major125BPM
  10. Wild HoneyU2C major125BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 126 BPMC major at 120–129 BPMThe Velvet Underground

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id c85304bc-f0b9-4f34-b9c9-8df343ab9443.