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Shut Your Eyes

Shut Your Eyes is in G sharp minor at 125 beats per minute.

Tempo

125 BPM · Allegromedian of 149 analyses · 124.9–125 across the middle eight tenths

Key: G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 64%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 149people who ran the extractor
One beat: 480milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 4.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.852Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.072Essentia'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

149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 64% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 125 BPM one beat lasts 480 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120 ms and a dotted eighth 360 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 250. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 4.68 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 0.852 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 G sharp 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 G♯ minor

Each of these differs from G♯ 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 125 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1920	0.52
Half note	2	960	1.04
Dotted quarter	1.5	720	1.39
Quarter note (one beat)	1	480	2.08
Quarter triplet	0.667	320	3.13
Dotted eighth	0.75	360	2.78
Eighth note	0.5	240	4.17
Eighth triplet	0.333	160	6.25
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	180	5.56
Sixteenth note	0.25	120	8.33
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	80	12.5
Thirty-second note	0.125	60	16.67

Half time 62.5 BPM · double time 250 BPM. Every row is one beat (480 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G sharp minor All songs at 125 BPM G♯ minor at 120–129 BPM Snow Patrol

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id fce2420a-a17c-4b66-99cc-677059aef05f.