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A Moment to Myself
A Moment to Myself is in C minor at 127.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
128 BPM · Allegromedian of 128 analyses · 127.8–127.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 469.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.37dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.437Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.566Essentia'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
128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 127.9 BPM one beat lasts 469.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.3 ms and a dotted eighth 351.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64 BPM, counted twice as fast 255.8. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.37 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 0.437 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 C 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C 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 128 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1876.5 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 938.2 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 703.7 | 1.42 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 469.1 | 2.13 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 312.7 | 3.2 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 351.8 | 2.84 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 234.6 | 4.26 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 156.4 | 6.4 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175.9 | 5.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.3 | 8.53 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.2 | 12.79 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.6 | 17.05 |
Half time 64 BPM · double time 255.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (469.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Jailbait (original mix)AviciiC minor128BPM
- FeverMichael BubléC minor128BPM
- Let’s Go to BedThe CureC minor128BPM
- It’s a SinPet Shop BoysC minor127BPM
- Be Quick or Be DeadIron MaidenC minor129BPM
- A New Machine, Part 2Pink FloydC minor129BPM
- Boy With a ProblemElvis Costello & The AttractionsC minor129BPM
- After MidnightEric ClaptonC minor126BPM
- A Girl Like YouEdwyn CollinsC minor126BPM
- Parallel UniverseRed Hot Chili PeppersC minor126BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 128 BPMC minor at 120–129 BPMdeadmau5
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 98da45fa-c3e2-4827-aa75-b90290a01bf5.