TempoPeek

Jay and the Americans · The Original

Come a Little Bit Closer

Come a Little Bit Closer is in E flat major at 133 beats per minute.

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Tempo

133 BPM · Allegromedian of 133 analyses · 133–133.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
133people who ran the extractor
One beat
451.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
447.4Hz · +29 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.87dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.789Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.113Essentia'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

133 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 133 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 133 BPM one beat lasts 451.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.8 ms and a dotted eighth 338.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 266. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.4 Hz, which is 29 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 4.87 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 0.789 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 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 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 133 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41804.50.55
Half note2902.31.11
Dotted quarter1.5676.71.48
Quarter note (one beat)1451.12.22
Quarter triplet0.667300.83.33
Dotted eighth0.75338.32.96
Eighth note0.5225.64.43
Eighth triplet0.333150.46.65
Dotted sixteenth0.375169.25.91
Sixteenth note0.25112.88.87
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.213.3
Thirty-second note0.12556.417.73

Half time 66.5 BPM · double time 266 BPM. Every row is one beat (451.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Marshmallow Attack!Tim DaviesE♭ major133BPM
  2. BargainThe WhoE♭ major133BPM
  3. SatisfactionAretha FranklinE♭ major133BPM
  4. Afro (Freestyle skit)Erykah BaduE♭ major133BPM
  5. The Long and Winding RoadThe BeatlesE♭ major133BPM
  6. The Way You Look TonightFrank SinatraE♭ major132BPM
  7. Rock ’n’ Roll SingerAC/DCE♭ major134BPM
  8. HarmonyElton JohnE♭ major132BPM
  9. Jamaica Jerk‑OffElton JohnE♭ major134BPM
  10. You’re Still the OneShania TwainE♭ major134BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 133 BPME♭ major at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 710e97ec-1e0e-4ffc-9bad-240839c09c41.