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Squeeze Box
Squeeze Box is in G major at 132.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
133 BPM · Allegromedian of 173 analyses · 132.5–132.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 173people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 452.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.16dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.894Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.135Essentia'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
173 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 173 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 132.7 BPM one beat lasts 452.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113 ms and a dotted eighth 339.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 265.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above 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 3.16 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 0.894 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 133 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1808.6 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 904.3 | 1.11 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 678.2 | 1.47 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 452.1 | 2.21 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 301.4 | 3.32 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 339.1 | 2.95 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 226.1 | 4.42 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 150.7 | 6.64 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 169.6 | 5.9 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 113 | 8.85 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.4 | 13.27 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.5 | 17.69 |
Half time 66.4 BPM · double time 265.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (452.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild HorsesU2G major133BPM
- O Holy NightCéline DionG major133BPM
- Brain DamagePink FloydG major133BPM
- Lyin’ EyesEaglesG major133BPM
- Cold Day in the SunFoo FightersG major133BPM
- Life of My Own3 Doors DownG major133BPM
- Good NightThe BeatlesG major132BPM
- Rockin’ in the Free WorldNeil YoungG major132BPM
- TaxmanThe BeatlesG major133BPM
- Cadillac RanchBruce SpringsteenG major133BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 133 BPMG major at 130–139 BPMThe Who
MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id b38b29ce-d8c2-4c32-a43b-21b4aa6730be.