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Liquor

Liquor is in C minor at 120 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Allegromedian of 200 analyses · 120–120 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
200people who ran the extractor
One beat
500milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.27dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.962Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.051Essentia'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

200 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 200 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 120 BPM one beat lasts 500 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125 ms and a dotted eighth 375 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60 BPM, counted twice as fast 240. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 2.27 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 0.962 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note420000.5
Half note210001
Dotted quarter1.57501.33
Quarter note (one beat)15002
Quarter triplet0.667333.33
Dotted eighth0.753752.67
Eighth note0.52504
Eighth triplet0.333166.76
Dotted sixteenth0.375187.55.33
Sixteenth note0.251258
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.312
Thirty-second note0.12562.516

Half time 60 BPM · double time 240 BPM. Every row is one beat (500 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. It’s My LifeBon JoviC minor120BPM
  2. Young and ProudAce of BaseC minor120BPM
  3. Glory BoxPortisheadC minor120BPM
  4. Dust Bowl DanceMumford & SonsC minor120BPM
  5. The Logical SongSupertrampC minor121BPM
  6. Black Wave/Bad VibrationsArcade FireC minor121BPM
  7. Since I’ve Been Loving YouLed ZeppelinC minor118BPM
  8. SunnyBoney M.C minor122BPM
  9. SalsationDavid ShireC minor118BPM
  10. Take CareDrake feat. RihannaC minor122BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 120 BPMC minor at 120–129 BPMZZ Top

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 69152337-444b-4f41-bcb9-5b857ab5c05b.