Pixies · Surfer Rosa
Where Is My Mind?
Where Is My Mind? is in E major at 163.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 266 analyses · 162.8–163.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 266people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 367milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.43dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.665Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.164Essentia'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
266 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 266 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 163.5 BPM one beat lasts 367 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.7 ms and a dotted eighth 275.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 327. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 5.43 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 0.665 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 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 164 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1467.9 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 733.9 | 1.36 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 550.5 | 1.82 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 367 | 2.73 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 244.6 | 4.09 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 275.2 | 3.63 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 183.5 | 5.45 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 122.3 | 8.18 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 137.6 | 7.27 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91.7 | 10.9 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 61.2 | 16.35 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.9 | 21.8 |
Half time 81.8 BPM · double time 327 BPM. Every row is one beat (367 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- This Is a CallFoo FightersE major164BPM
- All This and Heaven TooFlorence + the MachineE major164BPM
- Honey Don’tThe BeatlesE major163BPM
- For Whom the Bell TollsBee GeesE major164BPM
- 6060–842The B‐52sE major164BPM
- Safe From HarmMassive AttackE major165BPM
- Love So RightBee GeesE major162BPM
- That's Just the Woman in MeCéline DionE major165BPM
- SoupBlind MelonE major162BPM
- Party Out of BoundsThe B‐52sE major162BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 164 BPME major at 160–169 BPMPixies
MusicBrainz collapses 122 recording ids into this one. Recording id d201070b-ff15-49ce-877b-f91032617faf.