The Cure · The Walk
The Walk
The Walk is in E minor at 130.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 207 analyses · 130–130.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 87%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 207people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 460.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.96dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.919Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.417Essentia'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
207 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 207 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 130.4 BPM one beat lasts 460.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115 ms and a dotted eighth 345.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 260.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 3.96 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 0.919 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 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1840.5 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 920.2 | 1.09 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 690.2 | 1.45 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 460.1 | 2.17 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 306.7 | 3.26 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 345.1 | 2.9 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 230.1 | 4.35 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 153.4 | 6.52 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 172.5 | 5.8 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115 | 8.69 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.7 | 13.04 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.5 | 17.39 |
Half time 65.2 BPM · double time 260.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (460.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Put Your Money Where Your Mouth IsJetE minor131BPM
- PromisesThe CranberriesE minor130BPM
- Eight Miles HighThe ByrdsE minor130BPM
- Pigs (Three Different Ones)Pink FloydE minor130BPM
- Love FoolosophyJamiroquaiE minor129BPM
- CorduroyPearl JamE minor132BPM
- Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)JourneyE minor132BPM
- Ain’t No Mountain High EnoughMarvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellE minor129BPM
- Take Me to ChurchHozierE minor129BPM
- Superstylin’Groove ArmadaE minor129BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 130 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMThe Cure
MusicBrainz collapses 132 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1cb2dea7-a657-4f43-b520-9890bf01efe6.