TempoPeek

98° and Stevie Wonder · 98° and Rising

True to Your Heart

True to Your Heart is in E flat minor at 106.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

106 BPM · Andantemedian of 134 analyses · 106–106.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
565.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.98dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.948Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.208Essentia'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

134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 106.1 BPM one beat lasts 565.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.4 ms and a dotted eighth 424.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 212.2. 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 2.98 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 0.948 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 E flat 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 E♭ minor

Each of these differs from E♭ 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 106 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note422620.44
Half note211310.88
Dotted quarter1.5848.31.18
Quarter note (one beat)1565.51.77
Quarter triplet0.6673772.65
Dotted eighth0.75424.12.36
Eighth note0.5282.83.54
Eighth triplet0.333188.55.31
Dotted sixteenth0.375212.14.72
Sixteenth note0.25141.47.07
Sixteenth triplet0.16794.310.61
Thirty-second note0.12570.714.15

Half time 53.1 BPM · double time 212.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (565.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Diesel PowerProdigyE♭ minor106BPM
  2. Mr. BrownstoneGuns N’ RosesE♭ minor106BPM
  3. In the EndLinkin ParkE♭ minor105BPM
  4. PreciousDepeche ModeE♭ minor105BPM
  5. Man in the BoxAlice in ChainsE♭ minor107BPM
  6. Island of WonderNelly Furtado feat. Caetano VelosoE♭ minor105BPM
  7. Wishing WellTerence Trent D’ArbyE♭ minor105BPM
  8. Die YoungBlack SabbathE♭ minor105BPM
  9. Natural BluesMobyE♭ minor108BPM
  10. Lighten UpBeastie BoysE♭ minor108BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 106 BPME♭ minor at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 88805316-3abe-4eca-b309-8cf7facac112.