TempoPeek

Leonard Cohen · Songs of Leonard Cohen

So Long, Marianne

So Long, Marianne is in A major at 94.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

95 BPM · Andantemedian of 167 analyses · 94.5–95.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
167people who ran the extractor
One beat
632.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.3Hz · +17 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.35dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.87Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.056Essentia'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

167 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 167 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 94.9 BPM one beat lasts 632.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 158.1 ms and a dotted eighth 474.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 189.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.3 Hz, which is 17 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 3.35 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 0.87 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 95 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note425290.4
Half note21264.50.79
Dotted quarter1.5948.41.05
Quarter note (one beat)1632.21.58
Quarter triplet0.667421.52.37
Dotted eighth0.75474.22.11
Eighth note0.5316.13.16
Eighth triplet0.333210.74.75
Dotted sixteenth0.375237.14.22
Sixteenth note0.25158.16.33
Sixteenth triplet0.167105.49.49
Thirty-second note0.1257912.65

Half time 47.5 BPM · double time 189.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (632.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Help!The BeatlesA major95BPM
  2. Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise PollutionAC/DCA major95BPM
  3. Blue SkyThe Allman Brothers BandA major95BPM
  4. Breaking GlassDavid BowieA major95BPM
  5. For Your LoveThe YardbirdsA major95BPM
  6. I’m Bound for the Promised LandJohnny CashA major95BPM
  7. Glad to See You GoRamonesA major95BPM
  8. AfricaD’AngeloA major95BPM
  9. Just FriendsAmy WinehouseA major95BPM
  10. Lay Down SallyEric ClaptonA major95BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 95 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMLeonard Cohen

MusicBrainz collapses 58 recording ids into this one. Recording id 03324c96-733a-4f07-8d63-da47d8285294.