TempoPeek

Nat King Cole · Nat King Cole Collectors Series

Walkin' My Baby Back Home

Walkin' My Baby Back Home is in B flat minor at 110.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

111 BPM · Moderatomedian of 190 analyses · 110.4–110.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
190people who ran the extractor
One beat
542milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.09dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.63Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.137Essentia'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

190 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 190 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 110.7 BPM one beat lasts 542 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 135.5 ms and a dotted eighth 406.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 221.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 cents below 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 5.09 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 0.63 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 B 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 B♭ minor

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 111 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note421680.46
Half note210840.92
Dotted quarter1.58131.23
Quarter note (one beat)15421.85
Quarter triplet0.667361.32.77
Dotted eighth0.75406.52.46
Eighth note0.52713.69
Eighth triplet0.333180.75.54
Dotted sixteenth0.375203.34.92
Sixteenth note0.25135.57.38
Sixteenth triplet0.16790.311.07
Thirty-second note0.12567.814.76

Half time 55.4 BPM · double time 221.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (542 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Chain SmokerChance the RapperB♭ minor111BPM
  2. WithinDaft Punk feat. Chilly GonzalesB♭ minor110BPM
  3. (Ghost) Riders in the SkyJohnny CashB♭ minor110BPM
  4. Dirt Off Your ShoulderJay‐ZB♭ minor109BPM
  5. Pretty When You CryLana Del ReyB♭ minor109BPM
  6. Beat Box (Diversion One)Art of NoiseB♭ minor109BPM
  7. Blood on the Dance FloorMichael JacksonB♭ minor109BPM
  8. Bron‐Yr‐Aur StompLed ZeppelinB♭ minor109BPM
  9. MiamiWill SmithB♭ minor108BPM
  10. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) (extended version)Backstreet BoysB♭ minor108BPM

Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 111 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 111 BPMB♭ minor at 110–119 BPMNat King Cole

MusicBrainz collapses 34 recording ids into this one. Recording id 65d0aa5b-dbe2-470f-8077-c056118bdbe1.