Billy Joel · An Innocent Man
Leave a Tender Moment Alone
Leave a Tender Moment Alone is in B flat major at 110.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
110 BPM · Moderatomedian of 135 analyses · 110.3–110.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 135people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 543.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.638Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.155Essentia'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
135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 110.4 BPM one beat lasts 543.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 135.9 ms and a dotted eighth 407.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 220.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 5.99 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 0.638 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 B flat 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 B♭ major
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 110 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2173.9 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1087 | 0.92 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 815.2 | 1.23 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 543.5 | 1.84 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 362.3 | 2.76 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 407.6 | 2.45 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 271.7 | 3.68 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 181.2 | 5.52 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 203.8 | 4.91 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 135.9 | 7.36 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90.6 | 11.04 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.9 | 14.72 |
Half time 55.2 BPM · double time 220.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (543.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- GrenadeBruno MarsB♭ major110BPM
- Lady MarmaladeChristina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mýa and P!nkB♭ major110BPM
- EveryoneBackstreet BoysB♭ major110BPM
- MadonnaDrakeB♭ major110BPM
- Hands to MyselfSelena GomezB♭ major111BPM
- One by OneCherB♭ major111BPM
- The OneBackstreet BoysB♭ major110BPM
- The RisingBruce SpringsteenB♭ major110BPM
- WDPK 83.7 FMDaft PunkB♭ major111BPM
- Hide in Your ShellSupertrampB♭ major112BPM
Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 110 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 110 BPMB♭ major at 110–119 BPMBilly Joel
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id 78b14034-3288-4310-9069-86f9ab4f42ad.