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Take It as It Comes
Take It as It Comes is in A minor at 149.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
149 BPM · Allegromedian of 178 analyses · 149.2–150.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 178people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 401.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.68dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.784Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.922Essentia'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
178 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 178 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 149.4 BPM one beat lasts 401.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.4 ms and a dotted eighth 301.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 298.8. 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 3.68 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 0.784 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from A minor 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 149 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1606.4 | 0.62 |
| Half note | 2 | 803.2 | 1.25 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 602.4 | 1.66 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 401.6 | 2.49 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 267.7 | 3.74 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 301.2 | 3.32 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 200.8 | 4.98 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 133.9 | 7.47 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 150.6 | 6.64 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 100.4 | 9.96 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.9 | 14.94 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.2 | 19.92 |
Half time 74.7 BPM · double time 298.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (401.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Hidden PlaceBjörkA minor150BPM
- Declare IndependenceBjörkA minor149BPM
- Black PantherCrystal CastlesA minor150BPM
- Kick It OutHeartA minor150BPM
- Teddy PickerArctic MonkeysA minor150BPM
- AlabamaNeil YoungA minor148BPM
- Sun KingThe BeatlesA minor151BPM
- InnuendoQueenA minor148BPM
- Bring Your Daughter… to the SlaughterIron MaidenA minor148BPM
- 53 Miles West of VenusThe B‐52sA minor148BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 149 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 149 BPMA minor at 140–149 BPMThe Doors
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id e36920e0-0fba-475f-a4f8-db92f92e3d7f.