Billy Joel · The Bridge
This Is the Time
This Is the Time is in F major at 128.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
128 BPM · Allegromedian of 153 analyses · 128.2–128.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 153people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 467.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.09dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.771Essentia'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
153 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 153 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 128.3 BPM one beat lasts 467.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.9 ms and a dotted eighth 350.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 256.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 4.09 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 0.771 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 128 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1870.6 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 935.3 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 701.5 | 1.43 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 467.7 | 2.14 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 311.8 | 3.21 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 350.7 | 2.85 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 233.8 | 4.28 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 155.9 | 6.42 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175.4 | 5.7 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 116.9 | 8.55 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.9 | 12.83 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.5 | 17.11 |
Half time 64.2 BPM · double time 256.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (467.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- You Can Call Me AlPaul SimonF major128BPM
- Soul Meets BodyDeath Cab for CutieF major128BPM
- It’s Not My Time3 Doors DownF major128BPM
- Nothing Really MattersDavid Guetta feat. will.i.amF major128BPM
- Rapsodia (Rhapsody)Andrea BocelliF major128BPM
- Closerdeadmau5F major128BPM
- Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)Lady GagaF major128BPM
- With YouDrake feat. PARTYNEXTDOORF major128BPM
- Satisfy My SoulBob Marley & The WailersF major128BPM
- Peanut Butter JellyGalantisF major128BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 128 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMBilly Joel
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9c3db89c-14ae-4a77-8ec9-68d58d1870be.