The Beatles · Yesterday and Today
Yesterday
Yesterday is in F major at 96.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
97 BPM · Andantemedian of 253 analyses · 96.6–97.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 253people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 619.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 435.4Hz · -18 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.792Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.966Essentia'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
253 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 253 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 96.9 BPM one beat lasts 619.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.8 ms and a dotted eighth 464.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 193.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.4 Hz, which is 18 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 3.99 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 0.792 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2476.8 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1238.4 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 928.8 | 1.08 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 619.2 | 1.62 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 412.8 | 2.42 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 464.4 | 2.15 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 309.6 | 3.23 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 206.4 | 4.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 232.2 | 4.31 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 154.8 | 6.46 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 103.2 | 9.69 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 77.4 | 12.92 |
Half time 48.5 BPM · double time 193.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (619.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- All You Had to Do Was StayTaylor SwiftF major97BPM
- CalifornicationRed Hot Chili PeppersF major97BPM
- Alarm CallBjörkF major97BPM
- Amazing DayColdplayF major97BPM
- Everybody Needs Somebody to LoveBlues BrothersF major97BPM
- Falling Into YouCéline DionF major97BPM
- Never Tear Us ApartINXSF major97BPM
- What If I Do?Foo FightersF major97BPM
- These StreetsBastilleF major97BPM
- Love Don’t Cost a ThingJennifer LopezF major98BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 97 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 126 recording ids into this one. Recording id c05194a3-f6f0-4f52-b78a-13fb5580bc0f.