TempoPeek

Aretha Franklin · Aretha Now

I Can’t See Myself Leaving You

I Can’t See Myself Leaving You is in F major at 97.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

98 BPM · Andantemedian of 225 analyses · 97.4–97.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
225people who ran the extractor
One beat
614.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.87dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.469Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.046Essentia'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

225 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 225 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 97.6 BPM one beat lasts 614.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.7 ms and a dotted eighth 461.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 195.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.87 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 0.469 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 98 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note424590.41
Half note21229.50.81
Dotted quarter1.5922.11.08
Quarter note (one beat)1614.81.63
Quarter triplet0.667409.82.44
Dotted eighth0.75461.12.17
Eighth note0.5307.43.25
Eighth triplet0.333204.94.88
Dotted sixteenth0.375230.54.34
Sixteenth note0.25153.76.51
Sixteenth triplet0.167102.59.76
Thirty-second note0.12576.813.01

Half time 48.8 BPM · double time 195.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (614.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Love Don’t Cost a ThingJennifer LopezF major98BPM
  2. Hold OnWilson PhillipsF major98BPM
  3. These StreetsBastilleF major97BPM
  4. AyoChris Brown & TygaF major98BPM
  5. Real EmotionCéline DionF major98BPM
  6. FeelRobbie WilliamsF major98BPM
  7. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?MobyF major98BPM
  8. Wouldn’t It Be GoodNik KershawF major98BPM
  9. CalifornicationRed Hot Chili PeppersF major97BPM
  10. Alarm CallBjörkF major97BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 98 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMAretha Franklin

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 21d4a7fb-f960-453a-b33e-78cc713dd15d.