Michael Bublé · It’s Time
Try a Little Tenderness
Try a Little Tenderness is in D major at 123.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
124 BPM · Allegromedian of 130 analyses · 123.5–123.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 485.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.082Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.987Essentia'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
130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 123.5 BPM one beat lasts 485.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.5 ms and a dotted eighth 364.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 247. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above 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 5.47 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 0.082 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 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 124 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1943.3 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 971.7 | 1.03 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 728.7 | 1.37 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 485.8 | 2.06 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 323.9 | 3.09 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 364.4 | 2.74 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 242.9 | 4.12 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 161.9 | 6.18 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 182.2 | 5.49 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 121.5 | 8.23 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 81 | 12.35 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.7 | 16.47 |
Half time 61.8 BPM · double time 247 BPM. Every row is one beat (485.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Never Talking to You Again (live)Foo FightersD major124BPM
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- CuyahogaR.E.M.D major123BPM
- Get BackThe BeatlesD major123BPM
- Got to Give It UpMarvin GayeD major123BPM
- Morning Bell/AmnesiacRadioheadD major124BPM
- ContactDaft Punk feat. DJ FalconD major124BPM
- Where Do Broken Hearts GoWhitney HoustonD major124BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 124 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMMichael Bublé
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 03483c62-10ba-49c8-b43f-fec0dd15ba24.