Al Green · Al Green Gets Next to You
Tired of Being Alone
Tired of Being Alone is in G major at 98.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
98 BPM · Andantemedian of 130 analyses · 98.3–98.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 609.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 433.2Hz · -27 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.96dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.91Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.334Essentia'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
130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 98.4 BPM one beat lasts 609.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 152.4 ms and a dotted eighth 457.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 196.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 433.2 Hz, which is 27 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 4.96 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 0.91 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 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 98 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2439 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1219.5 | 0.82 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 914.6 | 1.09 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 609.8 | 1.64 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 406.5 | 2.46 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 457.3 | 2.19 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 304.9 | 3.28 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 203.3 | 4.92 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 228.7 | 4.37 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 152.4 | 6.56 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 101.6 | 9.84 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 76.2 | 13.12 |
Half time 49.2 BPM · double time 196.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (609.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- White CityThe PoguesG major98BPM
- Bad to the BoneGeorge Thorogood & the DestroyersG major99BPM
- If This Is ItHuey Lewis and the NewsG major98BPM
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- Night of the Long KnivesAC/DCG major99BPM
- Over the Hills and Far AwayLed ZeppelinG major99BPM
- You Can’t Hurry LovePhil CollinsG major98BPM
- BackstreetsBruce SpringsteenG major98BPM
- It’s All Over NowThe Rolling StonesG major99BPM
- Mary JaneAlanis MorissetteG major99BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 98 BPMG major at 90–99 BPMAl Green
MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id cfa318d3-d3ab-48e7-9b78-4f3383ed0ddd.