TempoPeek

The Beatles · Something New

I’ll Cry Instead

I’ll Cry Instead is in G major at 96.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

97 BPM · Andantemedian of 200 analyses · 95.9–96.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
200people who ran the extractor
One beat
621.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436.7Hz · -13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.76dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.965Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.366Essentia'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

200 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 200 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 96.5 BPM one beat lasts 621.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 155.4 ms and a dotted eighth 466.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 193. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.7 Hz, which is 13 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 3.76 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 0.965 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 97 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note424870.4
Half note21243.50.8
Dotted quarter1.5932.61.07
Quarter note (one beat)1621.81.61
Quarter triplet0.667414.52.41
Dotted eighth0.75466.32.14
Eighth note0.5310.93.22
Eighth triplet0.333207.34.83
Dotted sixteenth0.375233.24.29
Sixteenth note0.25155.46.43
Sixteenth triplet0.167103.69.65
Thirty-second note0.12577.712.87

Half time 48.3 BPM · double time 193 BPM. Every row is one beat (621.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Spinning WheelBlood, Sweat & TearsG major97BPM
  2. Don’t Cross the RiverAmericaG major97BPM
  3. The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)Céline DionG major97BPM
  4. Black Diamond BayBob DylanG major97BPM
  5. Set the Fire to the Third BarSnow Patrol feat. Martha WainwrightG major96BPM
  6. I Don’t Want to Spoil the PartyThe BeatlesG major96BPM
  7. After ForeverBlack SabbathG major96BPM
  8. The Man’s Too StrongDire StraitsG major98BPM
  9. Hotel YorbaThe White StripesG major98BPM
  10. Wonderful TonightEric ClaptonG major95BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 97 BPMG major at 90–99 BPMThe Beatles

MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id ac06289f-f867-44ce-a2ff-66f6752ef7c9.