Nina Simone · I Put a Spell on You

Feeling Good

Feeling Good is in G minor at 112 beats per minute.

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Tempo

112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 212 analyses · 111.5–113.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
212people who ran the extractor
One beat
535.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.46dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.658Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.935Essentia'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

212 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 212 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 111.5 to 113.6 BPM.

At 112 BPM one beat lasts 535.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.9 ms and a dotted eighth 401.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56 BPM, counted twice as fast 224. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 7.46 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 0.658 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 112 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42142.90.47
Half note21071.40.93
Dotted quarter1.5803.61.24
Quarter note (one beat)1535.71.87
Quarter triplet0.667357.12.8
Dotted eighth0.75401.82.49
Eighth note0.5267.93.73
Eighth triplet0.333178.65.6
Dotted sixteenth0.375200.94.98
Sixteenth note0.25133.97.47
Sixteenth triplet0.16789.311.2
Thirty-second note0.1256714.93

Half time 56 BPM · double time 224 BPM. Every row is one beat (535.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Feeling GoodMichael BubléE♭ minor77BPM

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

  1. Trampled Under FootLed ZeppelinG minor112BPM
  2. SubmarineBjörkG minor112BPM
  3. Someday You Will Be LovedDeath Cab for CutieG minor113BPM
  4. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)Talking HeadsG minor113BPM
  5. The Wanton SongLed ZeppelinG minor111BPM
  6. Scream Like a BabyDavid BowieG minor114BPM
  7. Ice Ice BabyVanilla IceG minor116BPM
  8. The MoocheLouis Armstrong & Duke EllingtonG minor108BPM
  9. Like a StoneAudioslaveG minor108BPM
  10. Naked in the RainRed Hot Chili PeppersG minor117BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 112 BPMG minor at 110–119 BPMNina Simone

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 96b8213c-48ab-435a-bd70-7f9d491fd107.