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Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers is in C minor at 134.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 138 analyses · 133.9–134.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 138people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 446.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.06dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.149Essentia'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
138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 134.5 BPM one beat lasts 446.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.5 ms and a dotted eighth 334.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 269. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.06 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 0.931 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 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1784.4 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 892.2 | 1.12 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 669.1 | 1.49 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 446.1 | 2.24 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 297.4 | 3.36 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 334.6 | 2.99 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 223 | 4.48 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148.7 | 6.73 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 167.3 | 5.98 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111.5 | 8.97 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74.3 | 13.45 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.8 | 17.93 |
Half time 67.3 BPM · double time 269 BPM. Every row is one beat (446.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Beautiful LifeAce of BaseC minor135BPM
- Love ShackThe B‐52sC minor134BPM
- A Lack of ColorDeath Cab for CutieC minor136BPM
- Yeat’s GraveThe CranberriesC minor136BPM
- Black SabbathBlack SabbathC minor133BPM
- A Question of TimeDepeche ModeC minor136BPM
- Fill Me InCraig DavidC minor133BPM
- Don’t Give Up (original radio edit)Chicane feat. Bryan AdamsC minor131BPM
- Keine LustRammsteinC minor138BPM
- Break & EnterThe ProdigyC minor138BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 135 BPMC minor at 130–139 BPMZZ Top
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 62ec7207-aa84-43b6-949e-8066b6be2cad.