The Rolling Stones · Tattoo You
Black Limousine
Black Limousine is in C major at 109.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 139 analyses · 109–118.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 75%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 548.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.72dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.953Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.2Essentia'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
139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 75% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 81% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 109 to 118.4 BPM.
At 109.4 BPM one beat lasts 548.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 137.1 ms and a dotted eighth 411.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 218.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above 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 2.72 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 0.953 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2193.8 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1096.9 | 0.91 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 822.7 | 1.22 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 548.4 | 1.82 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 365.6 | 2.74 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 411.3 | 2.43 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 274.2 | 3.65 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 182.8 | 5.47 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 205.7 | 4.86 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 137.1 | 7.29 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 91.4 | 10.94 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 68.6 | 14.59 |
Half time 54.7 BPM · double time 218.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (548.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 109 BPMC major at 100–109 BPMThe Rolling Stones
MusicBrainz collapses 119 recording ids into this one. Recording id a658e122-a30b-48ee-99be-be91104dae85.