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My Lover’s Prayer
My Lover’s Prayer is in A major at 124 beats per minute.
Tempo
124 BPM · Allegromedian of 179 analyses · 123.9–125.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 179people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 483.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.67dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.669Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.151Essentia'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
179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 123.9 to 125.5 BPM.
At 124 BPM one beat lasts 483.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121 ms and a dotted eighth 362.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62 BPM, counted twice as fast 248. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 5.67 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 0.669 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 | 1935.5 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 967.7 | 1.03 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 725.8 | 1.38 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 483.9 | 2.07 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 322.6 | 3.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 362.9 | 2.76 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 241.9 | 4.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 161.3 | 6.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 181.5 | 5.51 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 121 | 8.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.6 | 12.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.5 | 16.53 |
Half time 62 BPM · double time 248 BPM. Every row is one beat (483.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Buffalo SoldierBob Marley & The WailersA major124BPM
- Candle in the WindElton JohnA major124BPM
- SWLABRCreamA major124BPM
- CloseNick Jonas feat. Tove LoA major124BPM
- Catch My BreathKelly ClarksonA major124BPM
- Boys Keep SwingingDavid BowieA major124BPM
- Astronomy DominePink FloydA major124BPM
- Monkey on My BackAerosmithA major124BPM
- Houses of the HolyLed ZeppelinA major124BPM
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (The Neptunes remix)Daft PunkA major124BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 124 BPMA major at 120–129 BPMOtis Redding
MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0ee97930-7f37-485d-a233-eafd43699f48.