Neil Young · Harvest
Old Man
Old Man is in D minor at 141 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 239 analyses · 140.9–141.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 239people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 425.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.257Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.101Essentia'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
239 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 239 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 141 BPM one beat lasts 425.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.4 ms and a dotted eighth 319.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 282. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 6.51 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 0.257 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 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1702.1 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 851.1 | 1.18 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 638.3 | 1.57 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 425.5 | 2.35 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 283.7 | 3.53 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 319.1 | 3.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 212.8 | 4.7 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 141.8 | 7.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 159.6 | 6.27 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.4 | 9.4 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.9 | 14.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.2 | 18.8 |
Half time 70.5 BPM · double time 282 BPM. Every row is one beat (425.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Hate You Then I Love YouCéline Dion duet with Luciano PavarottiD minor141BPM
- The Prophet’s SongQueenD minor140BPM
- Don’t Stand So Close to MeThe PoliceD minor140BPM
- Staring at the SunU2D minor140BPM
- Weeping WallDavid BowieD minor142BPM
- I Come in PeaceShotgun MessiahD minor140BPM
- Sky Fits HeavenMadonnaD minor140BPM
- Feds Watching2 Chainz featuring PharrellD minor140BPM
- The Call of KtuluMetallicaD minor139BPM
- Can’t Stand Losing YouThe PoliceD minor143BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 141 BPMD minor at 140–149 BPMNeil Young
MusicBrainz collapses 118 recording ids into this one. Recording id 39442bc5-989f-4a79-bc68-e3f339f3108d.