TempoPeek

No Doubt · Return of Saturn

Ex‐Girlfriend

Ex‐Girlfriend is in E minor at 86.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

86 BPM · Andantemedian of 162 analyses · 86.1–86.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
162people who ran the extractor
One beat
695.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.2dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.977Essentia'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

162 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 86.3 BPM one beat lasts 695.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 173.8 ms and a dotted eighth 521.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 172.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.2 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 0.916 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 E 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 86 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note427810.36
Half note21390.50.72
Dotted quarter1.51042.90.96
Quarter note (one beat)1695.21.44
Quarter triplet0.667463.52.16
Dotted eighth0.75521.41.92
Eighth note0.5347.62.88
Eighth triplet0.333231.74.31
Dotted sixteenth0.375260.73.84
Sixteenth note0.25173.85.75
Sixteenth triplet0.167115.98.63
Thirty-second note0.12586.911.51

Half time 43.2 BPM · double time 172.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (695.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Born to DieLana Del ReyE minor86BPM
  2. My Nightmare’s DreamAWOLNATIONE minor86BPM
  3. EpicFaith No MoreE minor87BPM
  4. Cedarwood RoadU2E minor88BPM
  5. CenturiesFall Out BoyE minor88BPM
  6. Duck and Run3 Doors DownE minor88BPM
  7. Rollin' StoneMuddy WatersE minor84BPM
  8. Every Planet We Reach Is DeadGorillazE minor88BPM
  9. FragileStingE minor84BPM
  10. Big Ego’sDr. Dre featuring HittmanE minor89BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 86 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 86 BPME minor at 80–89 BPMNo Doubt

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2aafa22b-0b2c-4c60-b7eb-fbd4ac45d4a7.