The Beatles · Please Please Me
A Taste of Honey
A Taste of Honey is in B major at 100.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 138 analyses · 100.5–101 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 81%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 138people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 595.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 432.2Hz · -31 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.94dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.84Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.034Essentia'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
138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 81% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 100.8 BPM one beat lasts 595.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 148.8 ms and a dotted eighth 446.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 201.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 432.2 Hz, which is 31 cents below 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 3.94 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 0.84 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2381 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1190.5 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 892.9 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 595.2 | 1.68 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 396.8 | 2.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 446.4 | 2.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 297.6 | 3.36 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 198.4 | 5.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 223.2 | 4.48 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 148.8 | 6.72 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.2 | 10.08 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.4 | 13.44 |
Half time 50.4 BPM · double time 201.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (595.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Hoodoo / Voodoo Medicine ManAerosmithB major101BPM
- Faaip de OiadToolB major101BPM
- Paradise CityGuns N’ RosesB major100BPM
- Hey BulldogThe BeatlesB major102BPM
- I Don’t Want to Live Without YouForeignerB major100BPM
- Josieblink‐182B major100BPM
- ChocolateThe 1975B major100BPM
- Give Me One ReasonTracy ChapmanB major102BPM
- The Sad CaféEaglesB major102BPM
- Solsbury HillPeter GabrielB major103BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 101 BPMB major at 100–109 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 104 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6794841d-9f38-4e22-865c-fdee1f383043.