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Dos gardenias

Dos gardenias is in E minor at 92.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

92 BPM · Andantemedian of 293 analyses · 92.3–92.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
293people who ran the extractor
One beat
649.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.43dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.445Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.981Essentia'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

293 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 293 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 92.4 BPM one beat lasts 649.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 162.3 ms and a dotted eighth 487 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 184.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.43 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 0.445 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 92 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42597.40.39
Half note21298.70.77
Dotted quarter1.59741.03
Quarter note (one beat)1649.41.54
Quarter triplet0.667432.92.31
Dotted eighth0.754872.05
Eighth note0.5324.73.08
Eighth triplet0.333216.54.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375243.54.11
Sixteenth note0.25162.36.16
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.29.24
Thirty-second note0.12581.212.32

Half time 46.2 BPM · double time 184.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (649.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Give ’Em Hell, KidMy Chemical RomanceE minor92BPM
  2. DangerousDavid Guetta feat. Sam MartinE minor92BPM
  3. The StrangerBilly JoelE minor92BPM
  4. The DistanceCAKEE minor92BPM
  5. Going Down / Love in an ElevatorAerosmithE minor94BPM
  6. Love in an ElevatorAerosmithE minor94BPM
  7. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)MetallicaE minor94BPM
  8. ReflectionToolE minor91BPM
  9. FighterChristina AguileraE minor94BPM
  10. Communication / Skit IIIBlack Eyed PeasE minor95BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 92 BPME minor at 90–99 BPMBuena Vista Social Club

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3337d23e-eec6-4e8c-a279-9dcfee979719.