TempoPeek

Fontella Bass · Free (The Paula Recordings)

Rescue Me

Rescue Me is in D major at 123.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

123 BPM · Allegromedian of 165 analyses · 122.4–123.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
165people who ran the extractor
One beat
487.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.23dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.907Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.22Essentia'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

165 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 165 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 123.1 BPM one beat lasts 487.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.9 ms and a dotted eighth 365.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 246.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 4.23 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 0.907 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 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 123 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41949.60.51
Half note2974.81.03
Dotted quarter1.5731.11.37
Quarter note (one beat)1487.42.05
Quarter triplet0.667324.93.08
Dotted eighth0.75365.62.74
Eighth note0.5243.74.1
Eighth triplet0.333162.56.16
Dotted sixteenth0.375182.85.47
Sixteenth note0.25121.98.21
Sixteenth triplet0.16781.212.31
Thirty-second note0.12560.916.41

Half time 61.6 BPM · double time 246.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (487.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Rescue MeMadonnaB♭ minor118BPM

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. Have a Drink on MeAC/DCD major123BPM
  2. I’ve Got The World On A StringFrank SinatraD major123BPM
  3. Speed of SoundColdplayD major123BPM
  4. Mighty Good LeaderAudio AdrenalineD major123BPM
  5. Let It RainEric ClaptonD major123BPM
  6. FriendsDidoD major123BPM
  7. Get BackThe BeatlesD major123BPM
  8. Got to Give It UpMarvin GayeD major123BPM
  9. AerodynamicDaft PunkD major123BPM
  10. Aerodynamic (Daft Punk remix)Daft PunkD major123BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 123 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 123 BPMD major at 120–129 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 197 recording ids into this one. Recording id be1271da-477f-4402-bc69-21641a00fd1f.