The Beatles · Something New
If I Fell
If I Fell is in D major at 108.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 197 analyses · 107.6–108.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 197people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 553milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.41dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.204Essentia'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
197 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 197 readings; 90% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 108.5 BPM one beat lasts 553 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 138.2 ms and a dotted eighth 414.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 217. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.41 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 0.951 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 109 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2212 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1106 | 0.9 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 829.5 | 1.21 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 553 | 1.81 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 368.7 | 2.71 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 414.7 | 2.41 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 276.5 | 3.62 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 184.3 | 5.43 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 207.4 | 4.82 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 138.2 | 7.23 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 92.2 | 10.85 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 69.1 | 14.47 |
Half time 54.3 BPM · double time 217 BPM. Every row is one beat (553 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Powerless (Say What You Want)Nelly FurtadoD major108BPM
- Goodbye Blue SkyPink FloydD major109BPM
- World of PainCreamD major108BPM
- Just a GirlNo DoubtD major108BPM
- Come and Get Your LoveRedboneD major108BPM
- Leave HomeThe Chemical BrothersD major108BPM
- We Can Work It OutThe BeatlesD major108BPM
- Knowing Me, Knowing YouABBAD major108BPM
- Down UnderMen at WorkD major107BPM
- Without LoveBon JoviD major110BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 109 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 90 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7fef28ab-aa1b-4368-8ffe-c128b58042dd.