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Whatever It Takes
Whatever It Takes is in D flat major at 135.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 153 analyses · 135–135.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 153people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 444.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.66dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.892Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.009Essentia'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
153 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 153 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 135.1 BPM one beat lasts 444.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111 ms and a dotted eighth 333.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.66 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 0.892 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1776.5 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 888.2 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 666.2 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 444.1 | 2.25 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 296.1 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 333.1 | 3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 222.1 | 4.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148 | 6.76 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.5 | 6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111 | 9.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74 | 13.51 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.5 | 18.01 |
Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (444.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Drown in My Own TearsRay CharlesD♭ major135BPM
- No Cars GoArcade FireD♭ major135BPM
- Rock’n RollDaft PunkD♭ major135BPM
- Before the LobotomyGreen DayD♭ major136BPM
- Dreaming of MeDepeche ModeD♭ major134BPM
- Venus as a BoyBjörkD♭ major136BPM
- One Thing Leads to AnotherThe FixxD♭ major137BPM
- The Mob RulesBlack SabbathD♭ major137BPM
- Sweet but PsychoAva MaxD♭ major133BPM
- SparksColdplayD♭ major138BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 135 BPMD♭ major at 130–139 BPMImagine Dragons
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id ba172571-a0c9-4e75-855a-e4365ca33833.