TempoPeek

Johnny Cash and Tennessee Two · Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar

I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line is in F major at 105.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

106 BPM · Andantemedian of 181 analyses · 105.4–114.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
181people who ran the extractor
One beat
567.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
446.1Hz · +24 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.82dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.796Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.16Essentia'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

181 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 181 readings; 88% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 105.4 to 114.9 BPM.

At 105.8 BPM one beat lasts 567.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.8 ms and a dotted eighth 425.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 211.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.1 Hz, which is 24 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 3.82 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 0.796 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 106 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42268.40.44
Half note21134.20.88
Dotted quarter1.5850.71.18
Quarter note (one beat)1567.11.76
Quarter triplet0.667378.12.65
Dotted eighth0.75425.32.35
Eighth note0.5283.63.53
Eighth triplet0.3331895.29
Dotted sixteenth0.375212.74.7
Sixteenth note0.25141.87.05
Sixteenth triplet0.16794.510.58
Thirty-second note0.12570.914.11

Half time 52.9 BPM · double time 211.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (567.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. It’s the Falling in LoveMichael JacksonF major106BPM
  2. Sunday MorningThe Velvet Underground & NicoF major106BPM
  3. NocturneDaft PunkF major106BPM
  4. Nobody HomePink FloydF major106BPM
  5. Self EsteemOffspringF major106BPM
  6. This Song Has No TitleElton JohnF major106BPM
  7. Get It Right the First TimeBilly JoelF major106BPM
  8. Try Matty’sAretha FranklinF major106BPM
  9. Lookin’ out My Back DoorCreedence Clearwater RevivalF major105BPM
  10. Long, Long, LongThe BeatlesF major105BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 106 BPMF major at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id b9e8436a-ef5d-4949-af67-f95ce1667f50.