Depeche Mode · Speak & Spell
Dreaming of Me
Dreaming of Me is in D flat major at 134.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
134 BPM · Allegromedian of 159 analyses · 134–134.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 159people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 447.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 453.2Hz · +51 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.89dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.929Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.382Essentia'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
159 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 159 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 134.1 BPM one beat lasts 447.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.9 ms and a dotted eighth 335.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 268.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 453.2 Hz, which is 51 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. 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 0.929 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 D 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 D♭ major
Each of these differs from D♭ 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 134 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1789.7 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 894.9 | 1.12 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 671.1 | 1.49 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 447.4 | 2.24 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 298.3 | 3.35 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 335.6 | 2.98 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 223.7 | 4.47 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 149.1 | 6.71 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 167.8 | 5.96 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111.9 | 8.94 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74.6 | 13.41 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.9 | 17.88 |
Half time 67.1 BPM · double time 268.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (447.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rock’n RollDaft PunkD♭ major135BPM
- No Cars GoArcade FireD♭ major135BPM
- Drown in My Own TearsRay CharlesD♭ major135BPM
- Whatever It TakesImagine DragonsD♭ major135BPM
- Sweet but PsychoAva MaxD♭ major133BPM
- Read My MindThe KillersD♭ major132BPM
- When You Love a WomanJourneyD♭ major132BPM
- Before the LobotomyGreen DayD♭ major136BPM
- Venus as a BoyBjörkD♭ major136BPM
- One by OneEnyaD♭ major132BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 134 BPMD♭ major at 130–139 BPMDepeche Mode
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id c66652df-2daf-4218-9d4c-5f75b4555b90.