TempoPeek

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie · It Might as Well Be Swing

The Best Is Yet to Come

The Best Is Yet to Come is in A flat major at 109 beats per minute.

4080120160200

Tempo

109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 128 analyses · 98–109.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
550.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.174Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.001Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 85% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 98 to 109.1 BPM.

At 109 BPM one beat lasts 550.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 137.6 ms and a dotted eighth 412.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 218. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 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 6.97 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 0.174 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 A 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 A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ 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 109 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42201.80.45
Half note21100.90.91
Dotted quarter1.5825.71.21
Quarter note (one beat)1550.51.82
Quarter triplet0.6673672.73
Dotted eighth0.75412.82.42
Eighth note0.5275.23.63
Eighth triplet0.333183.55.45
Dotted sixteenth0.375206.44.84
Sixteenth note0.25137.67.27
Sixteenth triplet0.16791.710.9
Thirty-second note0.12568.814.53

Half time 54.5 BPM · double time 218 BPM. Every row is one beat (550.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. DesireU2A♭ major108BPM
  2. Atlantic CityBruce SpringsteenA♭ major108BPM
  3. Somebody to LoveQueenA♭ major110BPM
  4. Hungry HeartBruce SpringsteenA♭ major110BPM
  5. Breaking DownFlorence + the MachineA♭ major110BPM
  6. Quiet TimesDidoA♭ major110BPM
  7. Stand!Sly & the Family StoneA♭ major108BPM
  8. EpilogueTim DaviesA♭ major110BPM
  9. BoyInstupendoA♭ major110BPM
  10. So Swell When You’re WellAretha FranklinA♭ major111BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 109 BPMA♭ major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 42483f2f-7c32-4b03-bbce-fe4efc654543.