Led Zeppelin · Presence
For Your Life
For Your Life is in C major at 91.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
91 BPM · Andantemedian of 196 analyses · 91.2–91.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 196people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 657.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.21dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.868Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.172Essentia'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
196 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 196 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 91.3 BPM one beat lasts 657.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 164.3 ms and a dotted eighth 492.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 182.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.21 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 0.868 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 91 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2628.7 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1314.3 | 0.76 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 985.8 | 1.01 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 657.2 | 1.52 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 438.1 | 2.28 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 492.9 | 2.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 328.6 | 3.04 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 219.1 | 4.57 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 246.4 | 4.06 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 164.3 | 6.09 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 109.5 | 9.13 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 82.1 | 12.17 |
Half time 45.7 BPM · double time 182.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (657.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Universal TravelerAirC major91BPM
- LoreleiCocteau TwinsC major91BPM
- WhyAnnie LennoxC major91BPM
- SomewhereAretha FranklinC major92BPM
- Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)The TemptationsC major92BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 91 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 91 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMLed Zeppelin
MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id decb7c06-25a5-42ad-9fc2-4b84dd7d2a0f.