Aretha Franklin · Aretha Now
See Saw
See Saw is in C major at 136.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 387 analyses · 136.1–136.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 64%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 387people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 439.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.867Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.134Essentia'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
387 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 64% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 387 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136.4 BPM one beat lasts 439.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110 ms and a dotted eighth 329.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 4.4 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 0.867 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1759.5 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 879.8 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 659.8 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 439.9 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.3 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 329.9 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 219.9 | 4.55 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.6 | 6.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165 | 6.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110 | 9.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.3 | 13.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55 | 18.19 |
Half time 68.2 BPM · double time 272.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (439.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Material GirlMadonnaC major136BPM
- From Me to YouThe BeatlesC major137BPM
- Take It AllAdeleC major137BPM
- She BopCyndi LauperC major137BPM
- SatelliteCollective SoulC major136BPM
- Under the Milky WayThe ChurchC major136BPM
- La Vie en roseLouis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s OrchestraC major136BPM
- Will You Love Me TomorrowThe ShirellesC major137BPM
- And So It GoesBilly JoelC major136BPM
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on MeElton JohnC major137BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 136 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMAretha Franklin
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id f4d8e8f1-b3f1-4627-bd47-d3f2ad2560b5.