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I Could Have Lied

I Could Have Lied is in G major at 140 beats per minute.

Tempo

140 BPM · Allegromedian of 157 analyses · 140–140.1 across the middle eight tenths

Key: G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 157people who ran the extractor
One beat: 428.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 4.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.858Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.43Essentia'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

157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 140 BPM one beat lasts 428.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.1 ms and a dotted eighth 321.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70 BPM, counted twice as fast 280. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 4.16 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 0.858 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 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 140 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1714.3	0.58
Half note	2	857.1	1.17
Dotted quarter	1.5	642.9	1.56
Quarter note (one beat)	1	428.6	2.33
Quarter triplet	0.667	285.7	3.5
Dotted eighth	0.75	321.4	3.11
Eighth note	0.5	214.3	4.67
Eighth triplet	0.333	142.9	7
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	160.7	6.22
Sixteenth note	0.25	107.1	9.33
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	71.4	14
Thirty-second note	0.125	53.6	18.67

Half time 70 BPM · double time 280 BPM. Every row is one beat (428.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G major All songs at 140 BPM G major at 140–149 BPM Red Hot Chili Peppers

MusicBrainz collapses 40 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8b0e0c14-1e1c-4f37-9657-b27e3d575fa8.