Nina Simone · Pastel Blues

Sinnerman

Sinnerman is in B minor at 146.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

147 BPM · Allegromedian of 144 analyses · 128.1–146.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
82%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
144people who ran the extractor
One beat
408.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.83dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.662Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.061Essentia'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

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 82% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 82% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 128.1 to 146.9 BPM.

At 146.8 BPM one beat lasts 408.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.2 ms and a dotted eighth 306.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 293.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 4.83 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 0.662 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 B 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 B minor

Each of these differs from B 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 147 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41634.90.61
Half note2817.41.22
Dotted quarter1.5613.11.63
Quarter note (one beat)1408.72.45
Quarter triplet0.667272.53.67
Dotted eighth0.75306.53.26
Eighth note0.5204.44.89
Eighth triplet0.333136.27.34
Dotted sixteenth0.375153.36.52
Sixteenth note0.25102.29.79
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.114.68
Thirty-second note0.12551.119.57

Half time 73.4 BPM · double time 293.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (408.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Hotel CaliforniaEaglesB minor147BPM
  2. Isn’t It MidnightFleetwood MacB minor145BPM
  3. Calm Like a BombRage Against the MachineB minor149BPM
  4. MantraToolB minor150BPM
  5. VökuróBjörkB minor144BPM
  6. WHEN I WAS OLDERBillie EilishB minor150BPM
  7. Lucifer SamPink FloydB minor141BPM
  8. Dollars and CentsRadioheadB minor139BPM
  9. Come Out and PlayOffspringB minor156BPM
  10. Punky Reggae PartyBob Marley & The WailersB minor135BPM

Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B minorAll songs at 147 BPMB minor at 140–149 BPMNina Simone

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id bc0e9d24-8b23-41ca-a389-3196e071c56e.