TempoPeek

The Beatles · Rubber Soul

If I Needed Someone

If I Needed Someone is in A major at 128 beats per minute.

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Tempo

128 BPM · Allegromedian of 148 analyses · 127.9–128.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
148people who ran the extractor
One beat
468.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.14dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.942Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.08Essentia'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

148 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 148 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128 BPM one beat lasts 468.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.2 ms and a dotted eighth 351.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64 BPM, counted twice as fast 256. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.7 Hz, which is 5 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 3.14 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 0.942 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 128 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note418750.53
Half note2937.51.07
Dotted quarter1.5703.11.42
Quarter note (one beat)1468.82.13
Quarter triplet0.667312.53.2
Dotted eighth0.75351.62.84
Eighth note0.5234.44.27
Eighth triplet0.333156.36.4
Dotted sixteenth0.375175.85.69
Sixteenth note0.25117.28.53
Sixteenth triplet0.16778.112.8
Thirty-second note0.12558.617.07

Half time 64 BPM · double time 256 BPM. Every row is one beat (468.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Veldt (8 minute edit)deadmau5 feat. Chris JamesA major128BPM
  2. The Veldt (Tommy Trash remix)deadmau5 feat. Chris JamesA major128BPM
  3. Waiting for LoveAviciiA major128BPM
  4. BubblyColbie CaillatA major128BPM
  5. Bedlam in BelgiumAC/DCA major128BPM
  6. Hold On Loosely.38 SpecialA major128BPM
  7. The One I LoveR.E.M.A major128BPM
  8. Listen to Her HeartTom Petty and the HeartbreakersA major128BPM
  9. Say You Love MeFleetwood MacA major128BPM
  10. Beth/RestBon IverA major128BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 128 BPMA major at 120–129 BPMThe Beatles

MusicBrainz collapses 57 recording ids into this one. Recording id a01e8675-b1ad-4985-999d-1020012c523f.