A Day in the Life

390 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 390 readings; 53% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 154.8 to 164.1 BPM.

At 163.9 BPM one beat lasts 366.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.5 ms and a dotted eighth 274.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82 BPM, counted twice as fast 327.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.7 Hz, which is 13 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 6.71 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 0.142 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.