TempoPeek

Commodores · Caught in the Act

This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life is in A flat major at 153.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

154 BPM · Allegromedian of 131 analyses · 153.2–153.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
131people who ran the extractor
One beat
390.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.76dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.9Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.222Essentia'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

131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 153.5 BPM one beat lasts 390.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.7 ms and a dotted eighth 293.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 307. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.76 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 0.9 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 A flat 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 A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ 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 154 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41563.50.64
Half note2781.81.28
Dotted quarter1.5586.31.71
Quarter note (one beat)1390.92.56
Quarter triplet0.667260.63.84
Dotted eighth0.75293.23.41
Eighth note0.5195.45.12
Eighth triplet0.333130.37.68
Dotted sixteenth0.375146.66.82
Sixteenth note0.2597.710.23
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.115.35
Thirty-second note0.12548.920.47

Half time 76.8 BPM · double time 307 BPM. Every row is one beat (390.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Walking ContradictionGreen DayA♭ major154BPM
  2. Run To YouWhitney HoustonA♭ major152BPM
  3. Brain StewGreen DayA♭ major152BPM
  4. Bullet the Blue SkyU2A♭ major152BPM
  5. I Will FollowU2A♭ major155BPM
  6. SunriseNorah JonesA♭ major155BPM
  7. How Did I Fall in Love With YouBackstreet BoysA♭ major152BPM
  8. LovelandThe B‐52’sA♭ major152BPM
  9. Diamonds on the InsideBen HarperA♭ major155BPM
  10. Anything GoesGuns N’ RosesA♭ major152BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 154 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 154 BPMA♭ major at 150–159 BPMCommodores

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id a5a1632d-1134-49b5-8d65-60c83d698a4a.