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Fake Tales of San Francisco
Fake Tales of San Francisco is in B minor at 127.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 156 analyses · 127–128.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 156people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 471milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.09dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.871Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.069Essentia'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
156 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 156 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 127 to 128.9 BPM.
At 127.4 BPM one beat lasts 471 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.7 ms and a dotted eighth 353.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 4.09 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 0.871 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 B 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1883.8 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 941.9 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 706.4 | 1.42 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 471 | 2.12 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 314 | 3.19 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 353.2 | 2.83 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 235.5 | 4.25 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 157 | 6.37 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 176.6 | 5.66 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.7 | 8.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.5 | 12.74 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.9 | 16.99 |
Half time 63.7 BPM · double time 254.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (471 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Bills, Bills, BillsDestiny’s ChildB minor128BPM
- HeartbeatAnnieB minor128BPM
- Only Girl (in the World)RihannaB minor126BPM
- Killing Yourself to LiveBlack SabbathB minor129BPM
- JingoSantanaB minor126BPM
- Turn It On AgainGenesisB minor129BPM
- Hello AgainThe CarsB minor129BPM
- Horse LatitudesThe DoorsB minor130BPM
- Lovers on the SunDavid Guetta feat. Sam MartinB minor125BPM
- A Saucerful of SecretsPink FloydB minor130BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 127 BPMB minor at 120–129 BPMArctic Monkeys
MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 251c24cc-eb0f-4a17-a5dd-88e0008536d6.