Leonard Cohen · I’m Your Man
Take This Waltz
Take This Waltz is in G sharp minor at 142.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
143 BPM · Allegromedian of 142 analyses · 142.5–150.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 142people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 420.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.66dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.589Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.126Essentia'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
142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 142.5 to 150.9 BPM.
At 142.6 BPM one beat lasts 420.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.2 ms and a dotted eighth 315.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 285.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 4.66 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 0.589 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 G sharp 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 G♯ minor
Each of these differs from G♯ 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 143 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1683 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 841.5 | 1.19 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 631.1 | 1.58 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 420.8 | 2.38 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 280.5 | 3.57 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 315.6 | 3.17 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 210.4 | 4.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140.3 | 7.13 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 157.8 | 6.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105.2 | 9.51 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.1 | 14.26 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.6 | 19.01 |
Half time 71.3 BPM · double time 285.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (420.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Eugene’s LamentBeastie BoysG♯ minor143BPM
- Wishing WellBlack SabbathG♯ minor143BPM
- Heart of the SunriseYesG♯ minor144BPM
- I Don’t Care AnymorePhil CollinsG♯ minor141BPM
- Venus in FursThe Velvet UndergroundG♯ minor145BPM
- Leave My Woman AloneRay CharlesG♯ minor140BPM
- TroublesAlicia KeysG♯ minor146BPM
- Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout LoveVan HalenG♯ minor139BPM
- The Battle of EvermoreLed ZeppelinG♯ minor146BPM
- SatisfactionOtis ReddingG♯ minor147BPM
Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G sharp minorAll songs at 143 BPMG♯ minor at 140–149 BPMLeonard Cohen
MusicBrainz collapses 40 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7404f68c-94aa-4088-ad98-50b92c260819.