Simon & Garfunkel · Bookends
Mrs. Robinson
Mrs. Robinson is in B minor at 91.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
92 BPM · Andantemedian of 305 analyses · 91.6–91.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 305people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 654.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 450.5Hz · +41 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.91dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.809Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.12Essentia'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
305 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 305 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 91.7 BPM one beat lasts 654.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163.6 ms and a dotted eighth 490.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 183.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 450.5 Hz, which is 41 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.91 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 0.809 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 B 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 92 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2617.2 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1308.6 | 0.76 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 981.5 | 1.02 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 654.3 | 1.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 436.2 | 2.29 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 490.7 | 2.04 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 327.2 | 3.06 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 218.1 | 4.59 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 245.4 | 4.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 163.6 | 6.11 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 109.1 | 9.17 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 81.8 | 12.23 |
Half time 45.9 BPM · double time 183.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (654.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Summer Moved Ona‐haB minor92BPM
- Bitches Ain’t ShitDr. DreB minor92BPM
- SoldierErykah BaduB minor93BPM
- Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM
- KarmaBlack Eyed PeasB minor94BPM
- Not for MeBackstreet BoysB minor94BPM
- Havana AffairRamonesB minor89BPM
- GrindAlice in ChainsB minor89BPM
- Miss IndependentKelly ClarksonB minor88BPM
- Don’t Turn AroundAce of BaseB minor96BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 92 BPMB minor at 90–99 BPMSimon & Garfunkel
MusicBrainz collapses 53 recording ids into this one. Recording id df569676-9c08-4bec-8137-daa122c04ca9.