TempoPeek

The Crickets feat. Buddy Holly · From the Original Master Tapes

Think It Over

Think It Over is in A major at 131.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

131 BPM · Allegromedian of 185 analyses · 130.5–132 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
185people who ran the extractor
One beat
457.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.69dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.893Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.138Essentia'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

185 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 185 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 130.5 to 132 BPM.

At 131.1 BPM one beat lasts 457.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.4 ms and a dotted eighth 343.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 262.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.69 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 0.893 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 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 131 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41830.70.55
Half note2915.31.09
Dotted quarter1.5686.51.46
Quarter note (one beat)1457.72.18
Quarter triplet0.667305.13.28
Dotted eighth0.75343.22.91
Eighth note0.5228.84.37
Eighth triplet0.333152.66.56
Dotted sixteenth0.375171.65.83
Sixteenth note0.25114.48.74
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.313.11
Thirty-second note0.12557.217.48

Half time 65.6 BPM · double time 262.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (457.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Greatest Love of AllWhitney HoustonA major131BPM
  2. Life in Technicolor iiColdplayA major131BPM
  3. Stone EyesMeat PuppetsA major131BPM
  4. Criminal WorldDavid BowieA major131BPM
  5. Let’s GoThe CarsA major131BPM
  6. Who Loves the SunThe Velvet UndergroundA major131BPM
  7. Tiny MontgomeryBob Dylan & The BandA major132BPM
  8. There’s the GirlHeartA major130BPM
  9. HeartlessHeartA major130BPM
  10. Maxwell’s Silver HammerThe BeatlesA major132BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 131 BPMA major at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 7229aa5e-7b63-4565-8a31-f21403838172.