Neil Diamond · Beautiful Noise
If You Know What I Mean
If You Know What I Mean is in D major at 151.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
152 BPM · Allegromedian of 181 analyses · 151.4–151.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 181people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 396milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.62dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.69Essentia'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
181 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 181 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 151.5 BPM one beat lasts 396 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 99 ms and a dotted eighth 297 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 303. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 5.62 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 0.69 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 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 152 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1584.2 | 0.63 |
| Half note | 2 | 792.1 | 1.26 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 594.1 | 1.68 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 396 | 2.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 264 | 3.79 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 297 | 3.37 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 198 | 5.05 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 132 | 7.58 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 148.5 | 6.73 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 99 | 10.1 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66 | 15.15 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.5 | 20.2 |
Half time 75.8 BPM · double time 303 BPM. Every row is one beat (396 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AlivePearl JamD major152BPM
- What a Wonderful WorldEva Cassidy & Katie MeluaD major152BPM
- CongregationFoo FightersD major152BPM
- My WayFrank SinatraD major151BPM
- Sweetness FollowsR.E.M.D major152BPM
- Dear PrudenceThe BeatlesD major151BPM
- Muscle of LoveAlice CooperD major150BPM
- HellFoo FightersD major153BPM
- A‐YOLady GagaD major150BPM
- RadioLana Del ReyD major150BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 152 BPMD major at 150–159 BPMNeil Diamond
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4c933bfc-b1ed-49c3-9b1f-943012fdec27.