Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice & Matthew Garber · Mary Poppins

Chim Chim Cher‐ee

Chim Chim Cher‐ee is in C minor at 105.8 beats per minute.

Tempo

106 BPM · Andantemedian of 181 analyses · 105.6–106 across the middle eight tenths

Key: C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 181people who ran the extractor
One beat: 567.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 7.62dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.314Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.022Essentia'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

181 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 181 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 105.8 BPM one beat lasts 567.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.8 ms and a dotted eighth 425.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 211.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 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 7.62 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 0.314 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 106 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2268.4	0.44
Half note	2	1134.2	0.88
Dotted quarter	1.5	850.7	1.18
Quarter note (one beat)	1	567.1	1.76
Quarter triplet	0.667	378.1	2.65
Dotted eighth	0.75	425.3	2.35
Eighth note	0.5	283.6	3.53
Eighth triplet	0.333	189	5.29
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	212.7	4.7
Sixteenth note	0.25	141.8	7.05
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	94.5	10.58
Thirty-second note	0.125	70.9	14.11

Half time 52.9 BPM · double time 211.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (567.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minor All songs at 106 BPM C minor at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7ca5b7f9-2676-4ae8-b49b-8d7ef3ba1b5d.