Neil Diamond · Moods
Play Me
Play Me is in G minor at 105.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
106 BPM · Andantemedian of 330 analyses · 105.6–106.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 58%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 330people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 567.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 436.2Hz · -15 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.779Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.041Essentia'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
330 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 58% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 330 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 105.7 BPM one beat lasts 567.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.9 ms and a dotted eighth 425.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 211.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.2 Hz, which is 15 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 4.59 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 0.779 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 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 106 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2270.6 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1135.3 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 851.5 | 1.17 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 567.6 | 1.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 378.4 | 2.64 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 425.7 | 2.35 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 283.8 | 3.52 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 189.2 | 5.29 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 212.9 | 4.7 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 141.9 | 7.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 94.6 | 10.57 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71 | 14.09 |
Half time 52.9 BPM · double time 211.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (567.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Even FlowPearl JamG minor105BPM
- Une année sans lumièreArcade FireG minor105BPM
- Forty Six & 2ToolG minor106BPM
- BadlandsAC/DCG minor107BPM
- Joints & JamBlack Eyed PeasG minor107BPM
- Like a StoneAudioslaveG minor108BPM
- The MoocheLouis Armstrong & Duke EllingtonG minor108BPM
- RockerMiles DavisG minor103BPM
- Golden LadyStevie WonderG minor103BPM
- Buena Vista Social ClubBuena Vista Social ClubG minor102BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 106 BPMG minor at 100–109 BPMNeil Diamond
MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6b10c56b-8258-4082-8ec3-a7d29671d1b5.