Bread · Guitar Man
The Guitar Man
The Guitar Man is in E minor at 143.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 143.5–144.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 82%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 417.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.31dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.724Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.094Essentia'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
134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 82% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 143.7 BPM one beat lasts 417.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.4 ms and a dotted eighth 313.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 287.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.31 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 0.724 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 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1670.1 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 835.1 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 626.3 | 1.6 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 417.5 | 2.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 278.4 | 3.59 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 313.2 | 3.19 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 208.8 | 4.79 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139.2 | 7.19 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 156.6 | 6.39 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.4 | 9.58 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.6 | 14.37 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.2 | 19.16 |
Half time 71.9 BPM · double time 287.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (417.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- SomaSmashing PumpkinsE minor144BPM
- Yellow BellyThriceE minor144BPM
- Fitzpleasurealt‐JE minor144BPM
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)David BowieE minor143BPM
- East Jesus NowhereGreen DayE minor144BPM
- Monkey NeedsShotgun MessiahE minor143BPM
- Ride Across the RiverDire StraitsE minor145BPM
- Darts of PleasureFranz FerdinandE minor145BPM
- Who Wants to Live ForeverQueenE minor143BPM
- HurtChristina AguileraE minor145BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 144 BPME minor at 140–149 BPMBread
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id dafbf9f2-1c43-4889-8cbd-3d895d06b182.