Simon & Garfunkel · Bridge Over Troubled Water
El cóndor pasa (If I Could)
El cóndor pasa (If I Could) is in E minor at 147.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
148 BPM · Allegromedian of 365 analyses · 147.3–147.8 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
- 365people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 406.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.1Hz · +24 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 7.95dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.279Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.971Essentia'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
365 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 365 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 147.5 BPM one beat lasts 406.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.7 ms and a dotted eighth 305.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 295. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.1 Hz, which is 24 cents above 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 7.95 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 0.279 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 148 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1627.1 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 813.6 | 1.23 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 610.2 | 1.64 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 406.8 | 2.46 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 271.2 | 3.69 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 305.1 | 3.28 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 203.4 | 4.92 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 135.6 | 7.38 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 152.5 | 6.56 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 101.7 | 9.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.8 | 14.75 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.8 | 19.67 |
Half time 73.8 BPM · double time 295 BPM. Every row is one beat (406.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- MaroonedPink FloydE minor148BPM
- Sweet Sweet BulbsCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandE minor147BPM
- Achilles Last StandLed ZeppelinE minor147BPM
- StarriderForeignerE minor146BPM
- We’re Not Gonna Take ItTwisted SisterE minor149BPM
- HurtChristina AguileraE minor145BPM
- A Woman’s WorthAlicia KeysE minor150BPM
- Get in My Car50 CentE minor150BPM
- ReadymadeRed Hot Chili PeppersE minor150BPM
- ImaginaryEvanescenceE minor150BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 148 BPME minor at 140–149 BPMSimon & Garfunkel
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2cb12f44-7e95-40db-8b7e-b34e97a3bc26.