TempoPeek

Creedence Clearwater Revival · Cosmo’s Factory

Before You Accuse Me

Before You Accuse Me is in E major at 119.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

119 BPM · Moderatomedian of 287 analyses · 119.3–119.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
287people who ran the extractor
One beat
502.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.89dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.845Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.217Essentia'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

287 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 287 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 119.3 BPM one beat lasts 502.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.7 ms and a dotted eighth 377.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 238.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 3.89 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 0.845 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 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 119 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42011.70.5
Half note21005.90.99
Dotted quarter1.5754.41.33
Quarter note (one beat)1502.91.99
Quarter triplet0.667335.32.98
Dotted eighth0.75377.22.65
Eighth note0.5251.53.98
Eighth triplet0.333167.65.97
Dotted sixteenth0.375188.65.3
Sixteenth note0.25125.77.95
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.811.93
Thirty-second note0.12562.915.91

Half time 59.7 BPM · double time 238.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (502.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Just DanceLady Gaga featuring Colby O’DonisE major119BPM
  2. Million Dollar BashBob Dylan & The BandE major120BPM
  3. Forbidden LoveMadonnaE major119BPM
  4. Used 22 ChainzE major119BPM
  5. Under the BoardwalkThe Rolling StonesE major120BPM
  6. Don’t Stop Believin’JourneyE major120BPM
  7. Dark ParadiseLana Del ReyE major120BPM
  8. It’s So EasyLinda RonstadtE major120BPM
  9. Then You Look at MeCéline DionE major120BPM
  10. The LanguageDrakeE major120BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 119 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 119 BPME major at 110–119 BPMCreedence Clearwater Revival

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id df9333dd-0bd0-4a75-adb7-f955a5d69440.