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Yesterday Once More
Yesterday Once More is in E major at 165.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 179 analyses · 165–165.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 179people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 363.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.483Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.042Essentia'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
179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 165.1 BPM one beat lasts 363.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.9 ms and a dotted eighth 272.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 330.2. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 4.33 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 0.483 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 165 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1453.7 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 726.8 | 1.38 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 545.1 | 1.83 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 363.4 | 2.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 242.3 | 4.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 272.6 | 3.67 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 181.7 | 5.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.1 | 8.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136.3 | 7.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 90.9 | 11.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.6 | 16.51 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.4 | 22.01 |
Half time 82.6 BPM · double time 330.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (363.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- So UnsexyAlanis MorissetteE major165BPM
- That's Just the Woman in MeCéline DionE major165BPM
- Safe From HarmMassive AttackE major165BPM
- 6060–842The B‐52sE major164BPM
- For Whom the Bell TollsBee GeesE major164BPM
- All This and Heaven TooFlorence + the MachineE major164BPM
- ProtectionMassive AttackE major166BPM
- Show Me the Meaning of Being LonelyBackstreet BoysE major167BPM
- NakedCéline DionE major167BPM
- This Is a CallFoo FightersE major164BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 165 BPME major at 160–169 BPMCarpenters
MusicBrainz collapses 34 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1598333e-5cf8-499d-9fec-c2fb79a0dd11.