Pink Floyd · The Division Bell

Coming Back to Life

Coming Back to Life is in C major at 88.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 222 analyses · 88–89.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
222people who ran the extractor
One beat
681milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.99dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.605Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.995Essentia'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

222 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 222 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 88 to 89.7 BPM.

At 88.1 BPM one beat lasts 681 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.3 ms and a dotted eighth 510.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 176.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 4.99 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 0.605 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 88 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42724.20.37
Half note21362.10.73
Dotted quarter1.51021.60.98
Quarter note (one beat)16811.47
Quarter triplet0.6674542.2
Dotted eighth0.75510.81.96
Eighth note0.5340.52.94
Eighth triplet0.3332274.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375255.43.92
Sixteenth note0.25170.35.87
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.58.81
Thirty-second note0.12585.111.75

Half time 44.1 BPM · double time 176.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (681 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Road I’m On3 Doors DownC major88BPM
  2. All I NeedRadioheadC major88BPM
  3. Sheena Is a Punk RockerRamonesC major88BPM
  4. The Doo‐Bop SongMiles DavisC major88BPM
  5. Walkin’ BluesEric ClaptonC major88BPM
  6. No FreedomDidoC major88BPM
  7. LA CANCIÓNJ Balvin & Bad BunnyC major88BPM
  8. Why Can’t This Be LoveVan HalenC major89BPM
  9. The Mercy SeatJohnny CashC major88BPM
  10. She’s Got Her TicketTracy ChapmanC major87BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 88 BPMC major at 80–89 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0e1029f5-6be8-4cbb-ac73-2323d240558e.