Pearl Jam · Vitalogy
Corduroy
Corduroy is in E minor at 131.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
132 BPM · Allegromedian of 139 analyses · 130.6–131.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 456.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.26dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.771Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.228Essentia'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
139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 131.5 BPM one beat lasts 456.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.1 ms and a dotted eighth 342.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 263. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 5.26 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 0.771 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 132 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1825.1 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 912.5 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 684.4 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 456.3 | 2.19 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 304.2 | 3.29 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 342.2 | 2.92 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 228.1 | 4.38 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 152.1 | 6.58 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 171.1 | 5.84 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.1 | 8.77 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76 | 13.15 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57 | 17.53 |
Half time 65.8 BPM · double time 263 BPM. Every row is one beat (456.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)JourneyE minor132BPM
- LowColdplayE minor132BPM
- High by the BeachLana Del ReyE minor132BPM
- Suzie QCreedence Clearwater RevivalE minor132BPM
- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth IsJetE minor131BPM
- Gotta Get AwayOffspringE minor132BPM
- About a GirlNirvanaE minor133BPM
- The WalkThe CureE minor130BPM
- LuckyRadioheadE minor133BPM
- Pop StyleDrakeE minor133BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 132 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMPearl Jam
MusicBrainz collapses 603 recording ids into this one. Recording id a7174f7e-be41-4353-8513-17652160842a.