TempoPeek

The White Stripes · Elephant

The Hardest Button to Button

The Hardest Button to Button is in A minor at 128.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 175 analyses · 128.6–128.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
58%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
175people who ran the extractor
One beat
466.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.88dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.955Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.514Essentia'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

175 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 58% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 175 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128.7 BPM one beat lasts 466.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.6 ms and a dotted eighth 349.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 257.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.88 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 0.955 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41864.80.54
Half note2932.41.07
Dotted quarter1.5699.31.43
Quarter note (one beat)1466.22.15
Quarter triplet0.667310.83.22
Dotted eighth0.75349.72.86
Eighth note0.5233.14.29
Eighth triplet0.333155.46.44
Dotted sixteenth0.375174.85.72
Sixteenth note0.25116.68.58
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.712.87
Thirty-second note0.12558.317.16

Half time 64.4 BPM · double time 257.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (466.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Picture ThisBlondieA minor129BPM
  2. Dance the Night AwayCreamA minor129BPM
  3. Love on the RocksNeil DiamondA minor129BPM
  4. OrionMetallicaA minor129BPM
  5. BreathePink FloydA minor129BPM
  6. Listen Through MeThriceA minor129BPM
  7. Speak to Me / Breathe in the AirPink FloydA minor128BPM
  8. Conversations With My 13 Year Old SelfP!nkA minor129BPM
  9. Human After All (Alter Ego remix)Daft PunkA minor129BPM
  10. Susie QCreedence Clearwater RevivalA minor129BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 129 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMThe White Stripes

MusicBrainz collapses 31 recording ids into this one. Recording id 104972d9-3789-41b8-bb81-a63b077449ef.