TempoPeek

Buddy Holly & The Crickets · The Best of Buddy Holly

Raining in My Heart

Raining in My Heart is in G major at 105.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

105 BPM · Andantemedian of 151 analyses · 104.8–105.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
151people who ran the extractor
One beat
569.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.07dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.834Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.034Essentia'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

151 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 151 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 105.3 BPM one beat lasts 569.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.5 ms and a dotted eighth 427.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 210.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below 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 4.07 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 0.834 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 105 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42279.20.44
Half note21139.60.88
Dotted quarter1.5854.71.17
Quarter note (one beat)1569.81.76
Quarter triplet0.667379.92.63
Dotted eighth0.75427.42.34
Eighth note0.5284.93.51
Eighth triplet0.333189.95.27
Dotted sixteenth0.375213.74.68
Sixteenth note0.25142.57.02
Sixteenth triplet0.1679510.53
Thirty-second note0.12571.214.04

Half time 52.7 BPM · double time 210.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (569.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. FireRed Hot Chili PeppersG major105BPM
  2. It Ain’t Me BabeBob DylanG major105BPM
  3. Hard to ConcentrateRed Hot Chili PeppersG major105BPM
  4. Time to Say GoodbyeSarah Brightman & Andrea BocelliG major106BPM
  5. Let the Good Times RollRay CharlesG major106BPM
  6. Wake Me Up When September EndsGreen DayG major105BPM
  7. VincentDon McLeanG major105BPM
  8. Ring of FireJohnny CashG major105BPM
  9. The Way HomeChris BottiG major105BPM
  10. The Needle and the Damage DoneNeil YoungG major106BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 105 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMBuddy Holly & The Crickets

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9cec7679-1d7d-453c-a71d-44903bcdad04.