TempoPeek

Pink Floyd · The Division Bell

What Do You Want From Me

What Do You Want From Me is in E minor at 104.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 215 analyses · 104.2–108 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
215people who ran the extractor
One beat
575.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.7dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.926Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.041Essentia'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

215 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 215 readings; 71% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 104.2 to 108 BPM.

At 104.3 BPM one beat lasts 575.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 143.8 ms and a dotted eighth 431.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 208.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 2.7 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 0.926 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 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42301.10.43
Half note21150.50.87
Dotted quarter1.5862.91.16
Quarter note (one beat)1575.31.74
Quarter triplet0.667383.52.61
Dotted eighth0.75431.42.32
Eighth note0.5287.63.48
Eighth triplet0.333191.85.22
Dotted sixteenth0.375215.74.64
Sixteenth note0.25143.86.95
Sixteenth triplet0.16795.910.43
Thirty-second note0.12571.913.91

Half time 52.2 BPM · double time 208.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (575.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Cirrus MinorPink FloydE minor105BPM
  2. HauntedEvanescenceE minor104BPM
  3. Riders on the StormThe DoorsE minor103BPM
  4. Tres equisCypress HillE minor103BPM
  5. Bestrafe michRammsteinE minor103BPM
  6. Oh WellFleetwood MacE minor106BPM
  7. My GirlAerosmithE minor103BPM
  8. Lady D’ArbanvilleCat StevensE minor103BPM
  9. More Than a WomanBee GeesE minor106BPM
  10. Shining StarEarth, Wind & FireE minor103BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 104 BPME minor at 100–109 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 48c10127-0fcd-44f0-9a65-4432667e52e9.