TempoPeek

Frank Sinatra · A Swingin’ Affair!

The Lady Is a Tramp

The Lady Is a Tramp is in E flat minor at 129.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 136 analyses · 128.9–163.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
62%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
136people who ran the extractor
One beat
464.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.44dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.699Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.189Essentia'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

136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 62% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 60% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 128.9 to 163.1 BPM.

At 129.1 BPM one beat lasts 464.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.2 ms and a dotted eighth 348.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 258.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above 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 5.44 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 0.699 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 flat minor; 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♭ minor

Each of these differs from E♭ minor 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note418590.54
Half note2929.51.08
Dotted quarter1.5697.11.43
Quarter note (one beat)1464.82.15
Quarter triplet0.667309.83.23
Dotted eighth0.75348.62.87
Eighth note0.5232.44.3
Eighth triplet0.333154.96.46
Dotted sixteenth0.375174.35.74
Sixteenth note0.25116.28.61
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.512.91
Thirty-second note0.12558.117.21

Half time 64.6 BPM · double time 258.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (464.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. AliveDaft PunkE♭ minor129BPM
  2. Cracklin’ RosieNeil DiamondE♭ minor129BPM
  3. No LoveEminem feat. Lil WayneE♭ minor130BPM
  4. ZeroThe Smashing PumpkinsE♭ minor129BPM
  5. 7.5tApparatE♭ minor130BPM
  6. SatisfactionBenny Benassi presents The BizE♭ minor130BPM
  7. BOPDaBabyE♭ minor127BPM
  8. Cold as IceForeignerE♭ minor131BPM
  9. A Place for My HeadLinkin ParkE♭ minor133BPM
  10. Make LoveDaft PunkE♭ minor133BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 129 BPME♭ minor at 120–129 BPMFrank Sinatra

MusicBrainz collapses 112 recording ids into this one. Recording id 993fd76a-1573-46a5-bb77-81bb93d85d78.