Pink Floyd · The Dark Side of the Moon
Speak to Me / Breathe in the Air
Speak to Me / Breathe in the Air is in A minor at 128.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
128 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 128.4–128.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 467.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 9dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.62Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.101Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 128.4 BPM one beat lasts 467.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.8 ms and a dotted eighth 350.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 256.8. 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 9 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 0.62 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 128 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1869.2 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 934.6 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 700.9 | 1.43 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 467.3 | 2.14 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 311.5 | 3.21 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 350.5 | 2.85 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 233.6 | 4.28 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 155.8 | 6.42 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175.2 | 5.71 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 116.8 | 8.56 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.9 | 12.84 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.4 | 17.12 |
Half time 64.2 BPM · double time 256.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (467.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Love on the RocksNeil DiamondA minor129BPM
- OrionMetallicaA minor129BPM
- BreathePink FloydA minor129BPM
- Picture ThisBlondieA minor129BPM
- The Hardest Button to ButtonThe White StripesA minor129BPM
- Wrapped Around Your FingerThe PoliceA minor128BPM
- The Edge of GloryLady GagaA minor128BPM
- War MachineAC/DCA minor128BPM
- The Other SideJason DeruloA minor128BPM
- Dance the Night AwayCreamA minor129BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 128 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMPink Floyd
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 96685213-a25c-4678-9a13-abd9ec81cf35.