The Strokes · Is This It
Take It or Leave It
Take It or Leave It is in F major at 153.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
154 BPM · Allegromedian of 127 analyses · 153.5–153.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 84%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 127people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 390.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.43dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.792Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.994Essentia'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
127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 84% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 153.8 BPM one beat lasts 390.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.5 ms and a dotted eighth 292.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 307.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 2.43 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 0.792 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 154 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1560.5 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 780.2 | 1.28 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 585.2 | 1.71 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 390.1 | 2.56 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 260.1 | 3.85 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 292.6 | 3.42 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 195.1 | 5.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 130 | 7.69 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 146.3 | 6.84 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 97.5 | 10.25 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65 | 15.38 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.8 | 20.51 |
Half time 76.9 BPM · double time 307.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- DoubtMary J. BligeF major154BPM
- My Kind of TownFrank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle and His OrchestraF major153BPM
- No SurprisesRadioheadF major154BPM
- I Will Follow You Into the DarkDeath Cab for CutieF major153BPM
- No SurrenderBruce SpringsteenF major153BPM
- Cat’s in the CradleHarry ChapinF major155BPM
- Play DeadBjörk & David ArnoldF major155BPM
- Saturday Night’s Alright for FightingElton JohnF major153BPM
- One and OnlyAdeleF major155BPM
- A Man Needs a MaidNeil YoungF major155BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 154 BPMF major at 150–159 BPMThe Strokes
MusicBrainz collapses 32 recording ids into this one. Recording id 76cdf238-fa93-49a8-a256-fd8cda83338b.