TempoPeek

Cage the Elephant · Melophobia

Take It or Leave It

Take It or Leave It is in C major at 119.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 177 analyses · 119.9–119.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
177people who ran the extractor
One beat
500.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.5dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.975Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.218Essentia'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

177 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 177 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 119.9 BPM one beat lasts 500.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.1 ms and a dotted eighth 375.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.8. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 2.5 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 0.975 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42001.70.5
Half note21000.81
Dotted quarter1.5750.61.33
Quarter note (one beat)1500.42
Quarter triplet0.667333.63
Dotted eighth0.75375.32.66
Eighth note0.5250.24
Eighth triplet0.333166.86
Dotted sixteenth0.375187.75.33
Sixteenth note0.25125.17.99
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.411.99
Thirty-second note0.12562.615.99

Half time 60 BPM · double time 239.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (500.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Take It or Leave ItThe StrokesF major154BPM

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

  1. Outside the WallPink FloydC major120BPM
  2. MusicMadonnaC major120BPM
  3. The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceCéline DionC major120BPM
  4. So HardPet Shop BoysC major120BPM
  5. Half MoonJanis JoplinC major120BPM
  6. Deeper and DeeperMadonnaC major120BPM
  7. Hello AgainNeil DiamondC major120BPM
  8. The Invisible ManQueenC major120BPM
  9. My GirlsAnimal CollectiveC major120BPM
  10. AuroraBjörkC major120BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 120 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMCage the Elephant

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 487b142d-121f-4254-af3b-0846e4b69399.