TempoPeek

The Beautiful South · Choke

A Little Time

A Little Time is in F major at 108.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 131 analyses · 108.3–108.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
131people who ran the extractor
One beat
553milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.521Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.99Essentia'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

131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 108.5 BPM one beat lasts 553 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 138.2 ms and a dotted eighth 414.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 217. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 7.02 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 0.521 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 109 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note422120.45
Half note211060.9
Dotted quarter1.5829.51.21
Quarter note (one beat)15531.81
Quarter triplet0.667368.72.71
Dotted eighth0.75414.72.41
Eighth note0.5276.53.62
Eighth triplet0.333184.35.43
Dotted sixteenth0.375207.44.82
Sixteenth note0.25138.27.23
Sixteenth triplet0.16792.210.85
Thirty-second note0.12569.114.47

Half time 54.3 BPM · double time 217 BPM. Every row is one beat (553 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Walk This WayAerosmithF major108BPM
  2. SundayThe CranberriesF major109BPM
  3. Need You TonightINXSF major109BPM
  4. Upside DownDiana RossF major108BPM
  5. Djobi, DjobaGipsy KingsF major108BPM
  6. I Can’t ExplainDavid BowieF major108BPM
  7. Hobo Chang BaCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandF major109BPM
  8. Set Fire to the RainAdeleF major108BPM
  9. HurricaneThriceF major109BPM
  10. Larger Than LifeBackstreet BoysF major108BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 109 BPMF major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id 44612124-bad8-4060-a272-0aecb7f99b4f.