The Postal Service · Give Up

Such Great Heights

Such Great Heights is in F major at 87.5 beats per minute.

Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 127 analyses · 87.5–94.3 across the middle eight tenths

Key: F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 127people who ran the extractor
One beat: 685.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 4.14dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.917Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.636Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 87% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 87.5 to 94.3 BPM.

At 87.5 BPM one beat lasts 685.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 171.4 ms and a dotted eighth 514.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 175. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.14 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 0.917 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 88 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2742.9	0.36
Half note	2	1371.4	0.73
Dotted quarter	1.5	1028.6	0.97
Quarter note (one beat)	1	685.7	1.46
Quarter triplet	0.667	457.1	2.19
Dotted eighth	0.75	514.3	1.94
Eighth note	0.5	342.9	2.92
Eighth triplet	0.333	228.6	4.38
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	257.1	3.89
Sixteenth note	0.25	171.4	5.83
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	114.3	8.75
Thirty-second note	0.125	85.7	11.67

Half time 43.8 BPM · double time 175 BPM. Every row is one beat (685.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F major All songs at 88 BPM F major at 80–89 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 276942c0-bbad-4e14-ac8e-6be5154c2d1a.