The Beatles · Yesterday and Today
We Can Work It Out
We Can Work It Out is in D major at 107.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
108 BPM · Andantemedian of 251 analyses · 107.6–108.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 251people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 557.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.7Hz · -5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.93dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.953Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.092Essentia'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
251 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 251 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 107.7 BPM one beat lasts 557.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.3 ms and a dotted eighth 417.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 215.4. A score would mark that Andante, 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 2.93 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 0.953 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 108 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2228.4 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1114.2 | 0.9 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 835.7 | 1.2 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 557.1 | 1.8 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 371.4 | 2.69 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 417.8 | 2.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 278.6 | 3.59 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 185.7 | 5.39 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 208.9 | 4.79 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 139.3 | 7.18 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 92.9 | 10.77 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 69.6 | 14.36 |
Half time 53.9 BPM · double time 215.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (557.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Knowing Me, Knowing YouABBAD major108BPM
- Just a GirlNo DoubtD major108BPM
- Come and Get Your LoveRedboneD major108BPM
- Leave HomeThe Chemical BrothersD major108BPM
- Down UnderMen at WorkD major107BPM
- World of PainCreamD major108BPM
- Hells BellsAC/DCD major107BPM
- Pidgin EnglishElvis Costello & The AttractionsD major107BPM
- Powerless (Say What You Want)Nelly FurtadoD major108BPM
- If I FellThe BeatlesD major109BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 108 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 74 recording ids into this one. Recording id e432f23f-4fad-4780-ba3d-9b33240dfd10.