5 Seconds of Summer · CALM
Easier
Easier is in F major at 87.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
88 BPM · Andantemedian of 192 analyses · 87.8–87.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 192people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 683.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.2dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.858Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.25Essentia'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
192 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 192 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 87.8 BPM one beat lasts 683.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.8 ms and a dotted eighth 512.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 175.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.2 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 0.858 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 88 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2733.5 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1366.7 | 0.73 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1025.1 | 0.98 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 683.4 | 1.46 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 455.6 | 2.2 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 512.5 | 1.95 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 341.7 | 2.93 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 227.8 | 4.39 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 256.3 | 3.9 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 170.8 | 5.85 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 113.9 | 8.78 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 85.4 | 11.71 |
Half time 43.9 BPM · double time 175.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (683.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The ReturnDanny Brown feat. Freddie GibbsF major88BPM
- Romeo and JulietDire StraitsF major88BPM
- Such Great HeightsThe Postal ServiceF major88BPM
- Time for ChangeMötley CrüeF major87BPM
- Can I Holla At YaJ. ColeF major87BPM
- Can I Get A…Jay‐Z feat. Amil & Ja RuleF major89BPM
- Secret GardenBruce SpringsteenF major87BPM
- I’ve Gotta Get a Message to YouBee GeesF major87BPM
- A ChangeAretha FranklinF major89BPM
- Nights on BroadwayBee GeesF major89BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 88 BPMF major at 80–89 BPM5 Seconds of Summer
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 25597f61-a704-4c93-84b7-067812cbc6a1.