Art Garfunkel · Fate for Breakfast
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes is in G major at 112.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 156 analyses · 112.2–113.5 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
- 156people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 532.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.55dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.354Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.918Essentia'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. 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 156 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 112.2 to 113.5 BPM.
At 112.7 BPM one beat lasts 532.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.1 ms and a dotted eighth 399.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 225.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 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 4.55 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 0.354 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 113 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2129.5 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1064.8 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 798.6 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 532.4 | 1.88 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 354.9 | 2.82 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 399.3 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 266.2 | 3.76 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.5 | 5.64 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 199.6 | 5.01 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.1 | 7.51 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88.7 | 11.27 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.5 | 15.03 |
Half time 56.4 BPM · double time 225.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (532.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- 4 MinutesMadonna feat. Justin Timberlake & TimbalandG major113BPM
- Red RainPeter GabrielG major113BPM
- Lessons in LoveLevel 42G major113BPM
- It's All Too MuchThe BeatlesG major113BPM
- “Heroes”David BowieG major112BPM
- Take It BackPink FloydG major112BPM
- Last KissPearl JamG major112BPM
- You Little FoolElvis Costello & The AttractionsG major112BPM
- As Tears Go ByThe Rolling StonesG major112BPM
- How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?)Spin DoctorsG major112BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 113 BPMG major at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 41 recording ids into this one. Recording id c4dc69ed-ecb1-4351-8b60-5ef56b1d3a9c.