TempoPeek

F.R. David · Words

Words

Words is in C major at 123.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

124 BPM · Allegromedian of 190 analyses · 123.5–123.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
190people who ran the extractor
One beat
484.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
453.2Hz · +51 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.8dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.917Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.117Essentia'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

190 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 190 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 123.8 BPM one beat lasts 484.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.2 ms and a dotted eighth 363.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 247.6. 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 2.8 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 0.917 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 124 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41938.60.52
Half note2969.31.03
Dotted quarter1.57271.38
Quarter note (one beat)1484.72.06
Quarter triplet0.667323.13.1
Dotted eighth0.75363.52.75
Eighth note0.5242.34.13
Eighth triplet0.333161.66.19
Dotted sixteenth0.375181.75.5
Sixteenth note0.25121.28.25
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.812.38
Thirty-second note0.12560.616.51

Half time 61.9 BPM · double time 247.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (484.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. WordsBee GeesG major81BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. This Is What You Came ForCalvin Harris feat. RihannaC major124BPM
  2. Bang My HeadDavid Guetta feat. SiaC major124BPM
  3. WigThe B‐52sC major124BPM
  4. CrystalFleetwood MacC major124BPM
  5. Old DaysChicagoC major124BPM
  6. You Should Be DancingBee GeesC major123BPM
  7. No ReplyThe BeatlesC major124BPM
  8. Call Me When You’re SoberEvanescenceC major124BPM
  9. The Sidewinder Sleeps ToniteR.E.M.C major123BPM
  10. Another Town, Another TrainABBAC major123BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 124 BPMC major at 120–129 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 45 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0c999df0-60aa-40ab-b26b-9dbd5d5c1bb2.