Norah Jones · Come Away With Me
Painter Song
Painter Song is in A major at 79.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
79 BPM · Andantemedian of 163 analyses · 78.9–79.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 163people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 758.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.02dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.066Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.994Essentia'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
163 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 163 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 79.1 BPM one beat lasts 758.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 189.6 ms and a dotted eighth 568.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 39.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 158.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 8.02 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 0.066 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 79 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 3034.1 | 0.33 |
| Half note | 2 | 1517.1 | 0.66 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1137.8 | 0.88 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 758.5 | 1.32 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 505.7 | 1.98 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 568.9 | 1.76 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 379.3 | 2.64 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 252.8 | 3.95 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 284.5 | 3.52 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 189.6 | 5.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 126.4 | 7.91 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 94.8 | 10.55 |
Half time 39.6 BPM · double time 158.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (758.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Blue ChristmasCéline DionA major80BPM
- HaloBeyoncéA major80BPM
- Twistin’ the Night AwaySam CookeA major80BPM
- OmahaCounting CrowsA major81BPM
- Teenage JailEaglesA major77BPM
- Heal the WorldMichael JacksonA major81BPM
- In the CityEaglesA major81BPM
- Take Me Home, Country RoadsJohn DenverA major82BPM
- Shooting StarBad CompanyA major83BPM
- Dreamin’ of YouCéline DionA major83BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 79 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 79 BPMNorah Jones
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8228da4a-2322-409e-9fd5-f65b1c45394f.