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Rivers & Bridges

Rivers & Bridges is in C minor at 164.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 173 analyses · 164.6–164.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
173people who ran the extractor
One beat
364.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
8.52dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.369Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.132Essentia'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

173 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 173 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 164.6 BPM one beat lasts 364.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.1 ms and a dotted eighth 273.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 329.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 8.52 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 0.369 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 165 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41458.10.69
Half note27291.37
Dotted quarter1.5546.81.83
Quarter note (one beat)1364.52.74
Quarter triplet0.6672434.12
Dotted eighth0.75273.43.66
Eighth note0.5182.35.49
Eighth triplet0.333121.58.23
Dotted sixteenth0.375136.77.32
Sixteenth note0.2591.110.97
Sixteenth triplet0.16760.816.46
Thirty-second note0.12545.621.95

Half time 82.3 BPM · double time 329.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (364.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. It's Gonna Be Me*NSYNCC minor165BPM
  2. You Make Me Wanna…UsherC minor164BPM
  3. Pass the MicBeastie BoysC minor166BPM
  4. (Love Is Like a) Heat WaveMartha Reeves and the VandellasC minor163BPM
  5. He Won’t GoAdeleC minor162BPM
  6. Greased Lightnin'John TravoltaC minor162BPM
  7. The SupermenDavid BowieC minor172BPM
  8. Alpha Beta GagaAirC minor172BPM
  9. No One KnowsQueens of the Stone AgeC minor172BPM
  10. DownMarian HillC minor172BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 165 BPMC minor at 160–169 BPMScanner

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id d6325441-c3e1-46e2-a473-8a3461c417db.