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John Coltrane · My Favorite Things

My Favorite Things

My Favorite Things is in E flat minor at 88.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

89 BPM · Andantemedian of 314 analyses · 88.6–88.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
314people who ran the extractor
One beat
677.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.49dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.743Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.14Essentia'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

314 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 314 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 88.6 BPM one beat lasts 677.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 169.3 ms and a dotted eighth 507.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 177.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below 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 3.49 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 0.743 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 flat 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 89 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42708.80.37
Half note21354.40.74
Dotted quarter1.51015.80.98
Quarter note (one beat)1677.21.48
Quarter triplet0.667451.52.22
Dotted eighth0.75507.91.97
Eighth note0.5338.62.95
Eighth triplet0.333225.74.43
Dotted sixteenth0.3752543.94
Sixteenth note0.25169.35.91
Sixteenth triplet0.167112.98.86
Thirty-second note0.12584.711.81

Half time 44.3 BPM · double time 177.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (677.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Can’t Stand the RainTina TurnerE♭ minor88BPM
  2. Slow CheetahRed Hot Chili PeppersE♭ minor89BPM
  3. Heaven and HellBlack SabbathE♭ minor90BPM
  4. Down With the SicknessDisturbedE♭ minor90BPM
  5. Remember Me?Eminem featuring RBX and Sticky FingazE♭ minor90BPM
  6. Love Me TomorrowChicagoE♭ minor87BPM
  7. Rude BoyRihannaE♭ minor87BPM
  8. Empire State of MindJay‐Z + Alicia KeysE♭ minor87BPM
  9. Over and OverBlack SabbathE♭ minor91BPM
  10. On FireVan HalenE♭ minor91BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 89 BPME♭ minor at 80–89 BPMJohn Coltrane

MusicBrainz collapses 43 recording ids into this one. Recording id a4b7eed8-56bc-48c5-82a8-89fcfcfad376.