TempoPeek

Guns N’ Roses · Use Your Illusion I

Don’t Cry

Don’t Cry is in B major at 124.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

124 BPM · Allegromedian of 135 analyses · 124.2–124.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
135people who ran the extractor
One beat
482.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.04dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.779Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.002Essentia'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

135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 124.3 BPM one beat lasts 482.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.7 ms and a dotted eighth 362 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 248.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 4.04 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 0.779 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 note41930.80.52
Half note2965.41.04
Dotted quarter1.5724.11.38
Quarter note (one beat)1482.72.07
Quarter triplet0.667321.83.11
Dotted eighth0.753622.76
Eighth note0.5241.44.14
Eighth triplet0.333160.96.22
Dotted sixteenth0.3751815.52
Sixteenth note0.25120.78.29
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.512.43
Thirty-second note0.12560.316.57

Half time 62.2 BPM · double time 248.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (482.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Don’t CryAsiaC major148BPM

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. Let the Lower Lights Be BurningJohnny CashB major124BPM
  2. Sarah Yellin’3 Doors DownB major124BPM
  3. VelouriaPixiesB major125BPM
  4. Funky ShitProdigyB major125BPM
  5. Lady EvilBlack SabbathB major123BPM
  6. OuvertureDaft PunkB major123BPM
  7. Clearest BlueCHVRCHESB major123BPM
  8. Born in the U.S.A.Bruce SpringsteenB major123BPM
  9. Virginia MoonFoo FightersB major126BPM
  10. CleanDepeche ModeB major123BPM

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

All songs in B majorAll songs at 124 BPMB major at 120–129 BPMGuns N’ Roses

MusicBrainz collapses 88 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3b6271d3-e0ad-408b-8886-d72de1ef783e.