Led Zeppelin · Presence

Nobody’s Fault but Mine

Nobody’s Fault but Mine is in A minor at 184.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

185 BPM · Prestomedian of 200 analyses · 184.6–184.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
60%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
200people who ran the extractor
One beat
325milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.759Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.887Essentia'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

200 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 60% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 200 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 184.6 BPM one beat lasts 325 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 81.3 ms and a dotted eighth 243.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 92.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 369.2. A score would mark that Presto, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 4.93 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 0.759 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 185 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41300.10.77
Half note2650.11.54
Dotted quarter1.5487.52.05
Quarter note (one beat)13253.08
Quarter triplet0.667216.74.61
Dotted eighth0.75243.84.1
Eighth note0.5162.56.15
Eighth triplet0.333108.39.23
Dotted sixteenth0.375121.98.2
Sixteenth note0.2581.312.31
Sixteenth triplet0.16754.218.46
Thirty-second note0.12540.624.61

Half time 92.3 BPM · double time 369.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (325 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. New York Mining Disaster 1941Bee GeesA minor185BPM
  2. I Me MineThe BeatlesA minor185BPM
  3. Look at Me, I’m Sandra DeeStockard ChanningA minor185BPM
  4. Smokin’BostonA minor178BPM
  5. Stay (2009)J. ColeA minor178BPM
  6. Taking Over MeEvanescenceA minor178BPM
  7. The Lemon SongLed ZeppelinA minor178BPM
  8. Miss YouEric ClaptonA minor178BPM
  9. Don’t Believe in LoveDidoA minor178BPM
  10. Inject the VenomAC/DCA minor178BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 185 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 185 BPMLed Zeppelin

MusicBrainz collapses 201 recording ids into this one. Recording id 280319a6-8f6a-4296-80e6-78151dcd55fb.