The Doors · Strange Days

My Eyes Have Seen You

My Eyes Have Seen You is in E minor at 134.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 183 analyses · 134.6–134.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
183people who ran the extractor
One beat
445.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
446.1Hz · +24 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.735Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.021Essentia'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

183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134.7 BPM one beat lasts 445.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.4 ms and a dotted eighth 334.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 269.4. 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 5.97 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 0.735 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 135 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41781.70.56
Half note2890.91.12
Dotted quarter1.5668.21.5
Quarter note (one beat)1445.42.24
Quarter triplet0.6672973.37
Dotted eighth0.75334.12.99
Eighth note0.5222.74.49
Eighth triplet0.333148.56.74
Dotted sixteenth0.3751675.99
Sixteenth note0.25111.48.98
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.213.47
Thirty-second note0.12555.717.96

Half time 67.4 BPM · double time 269.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (445.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. VolcanoU2E minor135BPM
  2. SurrenderCheap TrickE minor134BPM
  3. Déjà vuCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungE minor136BPM
  4. Crown of CreationJefferson AirplaneE minor136BPM
  5. If You Were There, BewareArctic MonkeysE minor136BPM
  6. Sandstorm (radio edit)DarudeE minor136BPM
  7. Atom Heart Mother: a) Father’s Shout / b) Breast Milky / c) Mother Fore / d) Funky Dung / e) Mind Your Throats Please / f) RemergencePink FloydE minor136BPM
  8. Human After AllDaft PunkE minor136BPM
  9. Same Old Song and DanceAerosmithE minor133BPM
  10. [Grey Stripe]Aphex TwinE minor136BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 135 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMThe Doors

MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id a306af54-f7fe-4e1e-b5f8-06cb5b24a571.