Neil Young · Harvest
Harvest
Harvest is in D major at 85.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
86 BPM · Andantemedian of 256 analyses · 85.5–85.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 256people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 700.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.605Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.093Essentia'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
256 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 256 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 85.7 BPM one beat lasts 700.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 175 ms and a dotted eighth 525.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 171.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 4 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 0.605 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 86 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2800.5 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1400.2 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1050.2 | 0.95 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 700.1 | 1.43 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 466.7 | 2.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 525.1 | 1.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 350.1 | 2.86 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 233.4 | 4.29 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 262.5 | 3.81 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 175 | 5.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 116.7 | 8.57 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 87.5 | 11.43 |
Half time 42.9 BPM · double time 171.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (700.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- SimoriahAerosmithD major86BPM
- Pictures of YouThe CureD major86BPM
- Back in the U.S.A.Chuck BerryD major85BPM
- WinningSantanaD major86BPM
- Hey, Johnny Park!Foo FightersD major85BPM
- Detour Thru Your MindThe B‐52sD major87BPM
- Romance in DurangoBob DylanD major85BPM
- Livin’ on the EdgeAerosmithD major85BPM
- Hello SunshineAretha FranklinD major84BPM
- WorldBee GeesD major87BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 86 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 86 BPMD major at 80–89 BPMNeil Young
MusicBrainz collapses 26 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7b4776b6-c6fb-4937-aa55-fb26f0480de4.