Alicia Keys · Songs in A minor
Goodbye
Goodbye is in E major at 70 beats per minute.
Tempo
70 BPM · Adagiomedian of 147 analyses · 70–70 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 857.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.27dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.488Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.131Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 70 BPM one beat lasts 857.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 214.3 ms and a dotted eighth 642.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 35 BPM, counted twice as fast 140. A score would mark that Adagio, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 6.27 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 0.488 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 major; 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 major
Each of these differs from E major 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 70 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 3428.6 | 0.29 |
| Half note | 2 | 1714.3 | 0.58 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1285.7 | 0.78 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 857.1 | 1.17 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 571.4 | 1.75 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 642.9 | 1.56 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 428.6 | 2.33 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 285.7 | 3.5 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 321.4 | 3.11 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 214.3 | 4.67 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 142.9 | 7 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 107.1 | 9.33 |
Half time 35 BPM · double time 140 BPM. Every row is one beat (857.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- How Can You Mend a Broken HeartBee GeesE major69BPM
- T-ShirtDestiny’s ChildE major72BPM
- MineThe 1975E major75BPM
- The TouristRadioheadE major76BPM
- Just Like a WomanBob DylanE major77BPM
- ShiverColdplayE major78BPM
- Up All NightDrake feat. Nicki MinajE major78BPM
- Art DecadeDavid BowieE major78BPM
- Brothers in ArmsDire StraitsE major79BPM
- Good Ass IntroChance the Rapper feat. BJ the Chicago Kid, Lili K., Kiara Lanier, Peter Cottontale, Will for The O'mys & JP Floyd for Kids These DaysE major80BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 70 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorE major at 70–79 BPMAlicia Keys
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id cd4e3d05-138c-45fe-9663-996f84078f85.