Ray Charles · Sweet & Sour Tears

Drown in My Own Tears

Drown in My Own Tears is in D flat major at 135.1 beats per minute.

Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 180 analyses · 135.1–136 across the middle eight tenths

Key: D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 180people who ran the extractor
One beat: 444.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 6.49dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.154Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.031Essentia'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

180 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 180 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 135.1 BPM one beat lasts 444.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111 ms and a dotted eighth 333.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 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 6.49 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 0.154 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 135 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1776.5	0.56
Half note	2	888.2	1.13
Dotted quarter	1.5	666.2	1.5
Quarter note (one beat)	1	444.1	2.25
Quarter triplet	0.667	296.1	3.38
Dotted eighth	0.75	333.1	3
Eighth note	0.5	222.1	4.5
Eighth triplet	0.333	148	6.76
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	166.5	6
Sixteenth note	0.25	111	9.01
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	74	13.51
Thirty-second note	0.125	55.5	18.01

Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (444.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

Drown in My Own TearsAretha FranklinG major130BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D flat major All songs at 135 BPM D♭ major at 130–139 BPM Ray Charles

MusicBrainz collapses 79 recording ids into this one. Recording id d1b468fc-9808-4ac3-885b-a1d1ee7fb49b.