TempoPeek

The Rolling Stones · Sticky Fingers

Bitch

Bitch is in D major at 135.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 199 analyses · 135.3–136.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
57%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
199people who ran the extractor
One beat
442.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
435.2Hz · -19 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.68dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.529Essentia'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

199 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 57% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 199 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 135.7 BPM one beat lasts 442.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.5 ms and a dotted eighth 331.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.2 Hz, which is 19 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 0.916 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 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41768.60.57
Half note2884.31.13
Dotted quarter1.5663.21.51
Quarter note (one beat)1442.22.26
Quarter triplet0.667294.83.39
Dotted eighth0.75331.63.02
Eighth note0.5221.14.52
Eighth triplet0.333147.46.79
Dotted sixteenth0.375165.86.03
Sixteenth note0.25110.59.05
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.713.57
Thirty-second note0.12555.318.09

Half time 67.9 BPM · double time 271.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (442.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. BitchZoe WinklerB♭ minor166BPM

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

  1. Problem ChildAC/DCD major136BPM
  2. Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your BoyFall Out BoyD major136BPM
  3. SubstituteThe WhoD major135BPM
  4. I Would Die 4 UPrince and The RevolutionD major135BPM
  5. TomorrowAvril LavigneD major136BPM
  6. Lucy in the Sky With DiamondsThe BeatlesD major136BPM
  7. Beautiful DayU2D major136BPM
  8. The Width of a CircleDavid BowieD major135BPM
  9. The Kids Are AlrightThe WhoD major135BPM
  10. Dead FlowersThe Rolling StonesD major136BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 136 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 261 recording ids into this one. Recording id e91fb80e-a339-43a3-a14e-a682c6c041c7.