Eminem · The Marshall Mathers LP

Marshall Mathers

Marshall Mathers is in A minor at 95.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

96 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 95.9–96 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
142people who ran the extractor
One beat
625.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.96dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.872Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.267Essentia'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

142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 95.9 BPM one beat lasts 625.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 156.4 ms and a dotted eighth 469.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48 BPM, counted twice as fast 191.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 3.96 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 0.872 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 96 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42502.60.4
Half note21251.30.8
Dotted quarter1.5938.51.07
Quarter note (one beat)1625.71.6
Quarter triplet0.667417.12.4
Dotted eighth0.75469.22.13
Eighth note0.5312.83.2
Eighth triplet0.333208.64.8
Dotted sixteenth0.375234.64.26
Sixteenth note0.25156.46.39
Sixteenth triplet0.167104.39.59
Thirty-second note0.12578.212.79

Half time 48 BPM · double time 191.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (625.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. SorrowPink FloydA minor96BPM
  2. Silver BellsNeil DiamondA minor96BPM
  3. Outta Control50 CentA minor96BPM
  4. I Will SurviveCAKEA minor96BPM
  5. Juicy BootyChris Brown feat. Jhené Aiko & R. KellyA minor96BPM
  6. Young LustPink FloydA minor95BPM
  7. BatteryMetallicaA minor97BPM
  8. Will Anything Happen?BlondieA minor95BPM
  9. Regarde‐moiCéline DionA minor97BPM
  10. MilkGarbageA minor95BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 96 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 96 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPMEminem

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2e7be724-e3c8-4340-bf19-5d6c1b612fee.