Van Halen · Diver Down
The Full Bug
The Full Bug is in A major at 107.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
107 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 106.8–107.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 560.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.31dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.847Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.06Essentia'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
128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 107.1 BPM one beat lasts 560.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.1 ms and a dotted eighth 420.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 214.2. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.31 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 0.847 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 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 107 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2240.9 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1120.4 | 0.89 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 840.3 | 1.19 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 560.2 | 1.79 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 373.5 | 2.68 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 420.2 | 2.38 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 280.1 | 3.57 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 186.7 | 5.36 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 210.1 | 4.76 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 140.1 | 7.14 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93.4 | 10.71 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 70 | 14.28 |
Half time 53.6 BPM · double time 214.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (560.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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- Freak on a LeashKornA major107BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 107 BPMA major at 100–109 BPMVan Halen
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 74846fe9-60fa-489a-80af-0efde123977a.