TempoPeek

Paul Simon · The Rhythm of the Saints

Proof

Proof is in G major at 147.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

147 BPM · Allegromedian of 166 analyses · 139.3–147.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
166people who ran the extractor
One beat
407.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.837Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.399Essentia'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

166 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 166 readings; 58% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 139.3 to 147.5 BPM.

At 147.3 BPM one beat lasts 407.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.8 ms and a dotted eighth 305.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 294.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 4.55 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 0.837 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 G major; 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 G major

Each of these differs from G major 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 147 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41629.30.61
Half note2814.71.23
Dotted quarter1.56111.64
Quarter note (one beat)1407.32.46
Quarter triplet0.667271.63.68
Dotted eighth0.75305.53.27
Eighth note0.5203.74.91
Eighth triplet0.333135.87.37
Dotted sixteenth0.375152.76.55
Sixteenth note0.25101.89.82
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.914.73
Thirty-second note0.12550.919.64

Half time 73.7 BPM · double time 294.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (407.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Wild HorsesThe Rolling StonesG major147BPM
  2. Helplessly HopingCrosby, Stills & NashG major147BPM
  3. Holidays in the SunSex PistolsG major148BPM
  4. PatientlyJourneyG major147BPM
  5. Do You Have a Little TimeDidoG major148BPM
  6. Love, Oh LoveLionel RichieG major148BPM
  7. Too Much to AskAvril LavigneG major147BPM
  8. Love Me DoThe BeatlesG major148BPM
  9. Only Women BleedAlice CooperG major148BPM
  10. Hold OnJetG major148BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 147 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMPaul Simon

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5eb611e1-c7ab-4485-a83f-b0d5c3323112.