Pink Floyd · A Momentary Lapse of Reason

A New Machine, Part 2

A New Machine, Part 2 is in C minor at 129 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 162 analyses · 126–150 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
162people who ran the extractor
One beat
465.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
13.77dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.22Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.726Essentia'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. Most of them — 94% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 31% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 126 to 150 BPM.

At 129 BPM one beat lasts 465.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.3 ms and a dotted eighth 348.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 258. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 13.77 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 0.22 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 C 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41860.50.54
Half note2930.21.08
Dotted quarter1.5697.71.43
Quarter note (one beat)1465.12.15
Quarter triplet0.667310.13.23
Dotted eighth0.75348.82.87
Eighth note0.5232.64.3
Eighth triplet0.3331556.45
Dotted sixteenth0.375174.45.73
Sixteenth note0.25116.38.6
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.512.9
Thirty-second note0.12558.117.2

Half time 64.5 BPM · double time 258 BPM. Every row is one beat (465.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Boy With a ProblemElvis Costello & The AttractionsC minor129BPM
  2. Be Quick or Be DeadIron MaidenC minor129BPM
  3. Let’s Go to BedThe CureC minor128BPM
  4. Sexy and I Know ItLMFAOC minor130BPM
  5. Jailbait (original mix)AviciiC minor128BPM
  6. Hell After ThisDidoC minor130BPM
  7. FeverMichael BubléC minor128BPM
  8. A Moment to Myselfdeadmau5C minor128BPM
  9. ScheißeLady GagaC minor131BPM
  10. It’s a SinPet Shop BoysC minor127BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 129 BPMC minor at 120–129 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id 03691c75-a2bd-48c4-8788-b892c624d39d.