Neil Young · Harvest
Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is in G major at 85.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
85 BPM · Andantemedian of 362 analyses · 85.1–172.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 84%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 362people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 703.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.57dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.651Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.16Essentia'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
362 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 84% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 362 readings; 79% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 85.1 to 172.3 BPM.
At 85.3 BPM one beat lasts 703.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 175.8 ms and a dotted eighth 527.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 170.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above 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 4.57 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 0.651 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 85 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2813.6 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1406.8 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1055.1 | 0.95 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 703.4 | 1.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 468.9 | 2.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 527.5 | 1.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 351.7 | 2.84 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 234.5 | 4.26 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 263.8 | 3.79 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 175.8 | 5.69 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 117.2 | 8.53 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 87.9 | 11.37 |
Half time 42.7 BPM · double time 170.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (703.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 85 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMNeil Young
MusicBrainz collapses 176 recording ids into this one. Recording id e832b734-62e9-4eb7-84f8-0951f39e719e.