Joni Mitchell · Blue
All I Want
All I Want is in D flat major at 140.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 143 analyses · 140.7–141 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 143people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 426.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.9Hz · +19 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.65dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.144Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.014Essentia'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
143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 140.8 BPM one beat lasts 426.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.5 ms and a dotted eighth 319.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 281.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.9 Hz, which is 19 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 6.65 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 0.144 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 D 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 D♭ major
Each of these differs from D♭ 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1704.5 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 852.3 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 639.2 | 1.56 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 426.1 | 2.35 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 284.1 | 3.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 319.6 | 3.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 213.1 | 4.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 142 | 7.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 159.8 | 6.26 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.5 | 9.39 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71 | 14.08 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.3 | 18.77 |
Half time 70.4 BPM · double time 281.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (426.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Sail OnCommodoresD♭ major141BPM
- TryColbie CaillatD♭ major140BPM
- Help Me, RhondaThe Beach BoysD♭ major140BPM
- TrulyLionel RichieD♭ major140BPM
- Children of the SeaBlack SabbathD♭ major142BPM
- Body and SoulJohn ColtraneD♭ major142BPM
- City of Blinding LightsU2D♭ major139BPM
- Keep the FaithMichael JacksonD♭ major143BPM
- Heat of the MomentAsiaD♭ major143BPM
- Deck the Halls / We Wish You a Merry ChristmasNeil DiamondD♭ major143BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 141 BPMD♭ major at 140–149 BPMJoni Mitchell
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id f085a8df-24f6-4120-852a-5ad0d6ddb80d.