Dire Straits · Love Over Gold
Private Investigations
Private Investigations is in E minor at 152.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
153 BPM · Allegromedian of 134 analyses · 84.5–172.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 392.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.78dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.023Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.972Essentia'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. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 7% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 84.5 to 172.3 BPM. That is a recording the detector cannot settle on — the readings are spread far enough that the median is a summary of a disagreement rather than a measurement anybody should trust to the decimal.
At 152.8 BPM one beat lasts 392.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.2 ms and a dotted eighth 294.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 305.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 6.78 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 0.023 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 153 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1570.7 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 785.3 | 1.27 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 589 | 1.7 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 392.7 | 2.55 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 261.8 | 3.82 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 294.5 | 3.4 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 196.3 | 5.09 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 130.9 | 7.64 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 147.3 | 6.79 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.2 | 10.19 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.4 | 15.28 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.1 | 20.37 |
Half time 76.4 BPM · double time 305.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (392.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- StopPink FloydE minor151BPM
- Planet of WomenZZ TopE minor151BPM
- [Parallel Stripes]Aphex TwinE minor151BPM
- EffigyCreedence Clearwater RevivalE minor154BPM
- I Wanna LiveRamonesE minor155BPM
- Climbing Up the WallsRadioheadE minor155BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 153 BPME minor at 150–159 BPMDire Straits
MusicBrainz collapses 64 recording ids into this one. Recording id 99a9d1ca-aa98-472a-a613-8e90862227f7.