Otis Redding · Pain in My Heart
Security
Security is in C major at 115.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 131 analyses · 113.9–115.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 50%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 520.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.4Hz · +25 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.2dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.895Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.305Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 50% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 113.9 to 115.5 BPM.
At 115.3 BPM one beat lasts 520.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 130.1 ms and a dotted eighth 390.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 230.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.4 Hz, which is 25 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 4.2 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 0.895 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 115 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2081.5 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1040.8 | 0.96 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 780.6 | 1.28 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 520.4 | 1.92 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 346.9 | 2.88 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 390.3 | 2.56 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 260.2 | 3.84 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 173.5 | 5.77 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 195.1 | 5.12 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 130.1 | 7.69 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86.7 | 11.53 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 65 | 15.37 |
Half time 57.7 BPM · double time 230.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (520.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 115 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMOtis Redding
MusicBrainz collapses 23 recording ids into this one. Recording id ad8c43a4-eace-479a-b711-1f7421956450.