The Beatles · Something New
Things We Said Today
Things We Said Today is in A minor at 137.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
137 BPM · Allegromedian of 286 analyses · 136.3–137.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 286people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 437.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 435.8Hz · -16.5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.53dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.952Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.229Essentia'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
286 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 286 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 136.3 to 137.7 BPM.
At 137.2 BPM one beat lasts 437.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.3 ms and a dotted eighth 328 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 274.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.8 Hz, which is 16.5 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 3.53 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 0.952 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from A minor 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 137 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1749.3 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 874.6 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 656 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 437.3 | 2.29 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 291.5 | 3.43 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 328 | 3.05 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 218.7 | 4.57 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 145.8 | 6.86 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 164 | 6.1 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.3 | 9.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.9 | 13.72 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.7 | 18.29 |
Half time 68.6 BPM · double time 274.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (437.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Dog Eat DogAC/DCA minor137BPM
- The One ThingINXSA minor137BPM
- Last Living SoulsGorillazA minor137BPM
- Still Can’t…The CranberriesA minor137BPM
- Furthest ThingDrakeA minor137BPM
- BarracudaHeartA minor137BPM
- You Have Been LovedGeorge MichaelA minor137BPM
- Soul SacrificeSantanaA minor136BPM
- Superheroes / Human After All / Rock’n RollDaft PunkA minor138BPM
- The PhoenixFall Out BoyA minor138BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 137 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 81 recording ids into this one. Recording id cc480502-bfe8-4bd5-b98b-feba018698f0.