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Heart Upon My Sleeve

Heart Upon My Sleeve is in E minor at 126.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 169 analyses · 126–126.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
169people who ran the extractor
One beat
475.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.58dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.664Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.104Essentia'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

169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 126.1 BPM one beat lasts 475.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119 ms and a dotted eighth 356.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.58 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 0.664 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 E 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41903.30.53
Half note2951.61.05
Dotted quarter1.5713.71.4
Quarter note (one beat)1475.82.1
Quarter triplet0.667317.23.15
Dotted eighth0.75356.92.8
Eighth note0.5237.94.2
Eighth triplet0.333158.66.31
Dotted sixteenth0.375178.45.6
Sixteenth note0.251198.41
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.312.61
Thirty-second note0.12559.516.81

Half time 63.1 BPM · double time 252.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (475.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Too CloseAlex ClareE minor126BPM
  2. Hail CaesarAC/DCE minor126BPM
  3. Revolution 909Daft PunkE minor126BPM
  4. Cracked ActorDavid BowieE minor127BPM
  5. Voulez‐vousABBAE minor127BPM
  6. My SameAdeleE minor127BPM
  7. Bring Em Back AliveAudioslaveE minor127BPM
  8. The Sheltering SkyKing CrimsonE minor125BPM
  9. Step by StepNew Kids on the BlockE minor125BPM
  10. Du hastRammsteinE minor125BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 126 BPME minor at 120–129 BPMAvicii

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 2ad4fbcc-f843-41e3-b830-b265855927d6.