TempoPeek

Pink Floyd · The Wall

Bring the Boys Back Home

Bring the Boys Back Home is in C major at 78.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

78 BPM · Andantemedian of 272 analyses · 77.5–155.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
89%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
272people who ran the extractor
One beat
766.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
11.2dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.161Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.849Essentia'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

272 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 272 readings; 71% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 77.5 to 155.6 BPM.

At 78.3 BPM one beat lasts 766.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 191.6 ms and a dotted eighth 574.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 39.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 156.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 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 11.2 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 0.161 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 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 78 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note43065.10.33
Half note21532.60.65
Dotted quarter1.51149.40.87
Quarter note (one beat)1766.31.31
Quarter triplet0.667510.91.96
Dotted eighth0.75574.71.74
Eighth note0.5383.12.61
Eighth triplet0.333255.43.92
Dotted sixteenth0.375287.43.48
Sixteenth note0.25191.65.22
Sixteenth triplet0.167127.77.83
Thirty-second note0.12595.810.44

Half time 39.2 BPM · double time 156.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (766.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Guess That’s Why They Call It the BluesElton JohnC major80BPM
  2. The First NoelNeil DiamondC major81BPM
  3. Come Away With MeNorah JonesC major81BPM
  4. ChangesBlack SabbathC major81BPM
  5. MisunderstandingGenesisC major81BPM
  6. Golden SlumbersThe BeatlesC major81BPM
  7. All I NeedAWOLNATIONC major81BPM
  8. For My LoverTracy ChapmanC major81BPM
  9. The Sky Is BrokenMobyC major82BPM
  10. TrumpetsJason DeruloC major82BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 78 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 78 BPMPink Floyd

MusicBrainz collapses 37 recording ids into this one. Recording id e7840a7d-38e4-4d69-b666-0ee4c92fe832.