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Pictures of Lily
Pictures of Lily is in A minor at 126.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 279 analyses · 125.8–126.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 76%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 279people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 473.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.5dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.919Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.073Essentia'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
279 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 76% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 279 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 126.6 BPM one beat lasts 473.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.5 ms and a dotted eighth 355.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 253.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 2.5 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 0.919 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1895.7 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 947.9 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 710.9 | 1.41 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 473.9 | 2.11 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 316 | 3.17 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 355.5 | 2.81 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 237 | 4.22 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 158 | 6.33 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 177.7 | 5.63 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 118.5 | 8.44 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79 | 12.66 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.2 | 16.88 |
Half time 63.3 BPM · double time 253.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (473.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Star GuitarThe Chemical BrothersA minor127BPM
- Around the World / Harder Better Faster StrongerDaft PunkA minor126BPM
- Fade to BlackMetallicaA minor126BPM
- When I Get HomeThe BeatlesA minor126BPM
- Hey Everybody!5 Seconds of SummerA minor126BPM
- I CryFlo RidaA minor126BPM
- AbracadabraSteve Miller BandA minor127BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 127 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMThe Who
MusicBrainz collapses 32 recording ids into this one. Recording id 58c1eecb-9ea0-4a1a-8ee7-22e829c628ac.