TempoPeek

Aretha Franklin · I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Dr. Feelgood

Dr. Feelgood is in C major at 140.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

140 BPM · Allegromedian of 414 analyses · 140.3–140.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
414people who ran the extractor
One beat
427.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.18dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.392Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.115Essentia'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

414 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 414 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 140.4 BPM one beat lasts 427.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.8 ms and a dotted eighth 320.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 280.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 6.18 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 0.392 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 140 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41709.40.59
Half note2854.71.17
Dotted quarter1.56411.56
Quarter note (one beat)1427.42.34
Quarter triplet0.667284.93.51
Dotted eighth0.75320.53.12
Eighth note0.5213.74.68
Eighth triplet0.333142.57.02
Dotted sixteenth0.375160.36.24
Sixteenth note0.25106.89.36
Sixteenth triplet0.16771.214.04
Thirty-second note0.12553.418.72

Half time 70.2 BPM · double time 280.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (427.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Dr. FeelgoodMötley CrüeD minor111BPM

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. HeavenBryan AdamsC major140BPM
  2. AmazingAerosmithC major140BPM
  3. Jingle Bell RockNeil DiamondC major140BPM
  4. Whispering PinesThe BandC major140BPM
  5. We Belong TogetherMariah CareyC major140BPM
  6. WorkIggy AzaleaC major140BPM
  7. DreamsVan HalenC major141BPM
  8. Where Are Ü NowJack Ü with Justin BieberC major140BPM
  9. Every NightImagine DragonsC major140BPM
  10. U + Ur HandP!nkC major141BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 140 BPMC major at 140–149 BPMAretha Franklin

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id 63afff66-371a-4016-bc48-efb948316ed0.