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Calling Dr. Love

Calling Dr. Love is in E flat minor at 127.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

127 BPM · Allegromedian of 152 analyses · 127.2–135.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
48%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
152people who ran the extractor
One beat
471.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.07dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.897Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.237Essentia'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

152 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 48% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 152 readings; 90% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 127.2 to 135.2 BPM.

At 127.3 BPM one beat lasts 471.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.8 ms and a dotted eighth 353.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 5.07 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 0.897 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 127 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41885.30.53
Half note2942.71.06
Dotted quarter1.57071.41
Quarter note (one beat)1471.32.12
Quarter triplet0.667314.23.18
Dotted eighth0.75353.52.83
Eighth note0.5235.74.24
Eighth triplet0.333157.16.37
Dotted sixteenth0.375176.75.66
Sixteenth note0.25117.88.49
Sixteenth triplet0.16778.612.73
Thirty-second note0.12558.916.97

Half time 63.7 BPM · double time 254.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (471.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. BOPDaBabyE♭ minor127BPM
  2. ZeroThe Smashing PumpkinsE♭ minor129BPM
  3. AliveDaft PunkE♭ minor129BPM
  4. Cracklin’ RosieNeil DiamondE♭ minor129BPM
  5. The Lady Is a TrampFrank SinatraE♭ minor129BPM
  6. No LoveEminem feat. Lil WayneE♭ minor130BPM
  7. You Make MeAviciiE♭ minor125BPM
  8. 7.5tApparatE♭ minor130BPM
  9. The West SidePhil CollinsE♭ minor125BPM
  10. SatisfactionBenny Benassi presents The BizE♭ minor130BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 127 BPME♭ minor at 120–129 BPMKISS

MusicBrainz collapses 137 recording ids into this one. Recording id 118dbd3d-88fc-4131-8f83-a9205343e500.