Why Can’t I Be You?

264 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 264 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 105.9 to 107.9 BPM.

At 107.6 BPM one beat lasts 557.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.4 ms and a dotted eighth 418.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 215.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 cents above 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 2.25 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 D minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.