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Evening Falls…
Evening Falls… is in F sharp major at 126.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
126 BPM · Allegromedian of 144 analyses · 123.2–136.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 474.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.145Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.903Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 39% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 123.2 to 136.4 BPM.
At 126.4 BPM one beat lasts 474.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.7 ms and a dotted eighth 356 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 5.59 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 0.145 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 F sharp 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 F♯ major
Each of these differs from F♯ 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 126 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1898.7 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 949.4 | 1.05 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 712 | 1.4 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 474.7 | 2.11 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 316.5 | 3.16 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 356 | 2.81 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 237.3 | 4.21 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 158.2 | 6.32 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 178 | 5.62 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 118.7 | 8.43 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.1 | 12.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.3 | 16.85 |
Half time 63.2 BPM · double time 252.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (474.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Thirty‐ThreeThe Smashing PumpkinsF♯ major126BPM
- TreefingersRadioheadF♯ major127BPM
- The Winner Takes It AllABBAF♯ major126BPM
- My Poor BrainFoo FightersF♯ major126BPM
- Mr. MoonlightThe BeatlesF♯ major126BPM
- Say You WillForeignerF♯ major126BPM
- Y.M.C.A.Village PeopleF♯ major127BPM
- Fade Into Darkness (instrumental club mix)AviciiF♯ major126BPM
- The NightsAviciiF♯ major126BPM
- Sand in My ShoesDidoF♯ major126BPM
Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 126 BPMF♯ major at 120–129 BPMEnya
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id ac17a348-2428-491e-be1c-3e4f08f8ce6f.