TempoPeek

Creedence Clearwater Revival · Mardi Gras

Need Someone to Hold

Need Someone to Hold is in G major at 89.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

89 BPM · Andantemedian of 150 analyses · 88.7–89.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
86%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
150people who ran the extractor
One beat
673.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.48dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.762Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.23Essentia'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

150 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 86% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 150 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 89.1 BPM one beat lasts 673.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 168.4 ms and a dotted eighth 505.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 178.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.48 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 0.762 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 89 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42693.60.37
Half note21346.80.74
Dotted quarter1.51010.10.99
Quarter note (one beat)1673.41.49
Quarter triplet0.667448.92.23
Dotted eighth0.75505.11.98
Eighth note0.5336.72.97
Eighth triplet0.333224.54.46
Dotted sixteenth0.375252.53.96
Sixteenth note0.25168.45.94
Sixteenth triplet0.167112.28.91
Thirty-second note0.12584.211.88

Half time 44.6 BPM · double time 178.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (673.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Hate Myself for Losing YouKelly ClarksonG major89BPM
  2. Wot’s… Uh the DealPink FloydG major89BPM
  3. Teenage Lament ’74Alice CooperG major89BPM
  4. ContradictionApparatG major89BPM
  5. The River of DreamsBilly JoelG major90BPM
  6. Going Back to MiamiBlues BrothersG major90BPM
  7. Next YearFoo FightersG major88BPM
  8. Maggie’s FarmBob DylanG major88BPM
  9. You Like Me Too MuchThe BeatlesG major88BPM
  10. Funky MonksRed Hot Chili PeppersG major90BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 89 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMCreedence Clearwater Revival

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 4f1e8bc9-ae86-4420-9671-87c69490cd71.