Steely Dan · Can’t Buy a Thrill
Do It Again
Do It Again is in C major at 124.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 302 analyses · 124.4–124.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 302people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 481.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.03dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.889Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.362Essentia'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
302 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 302 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 124.5 BPM one beat lasts 481.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.5 ms and a dotted eighth 361.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 249. 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 4.03 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 0.889 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1927.7 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 963.9 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 722.9 | 1.38 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 481.9 | 2.07 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 321.3 | 3.11 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 361.4 | 2.77 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 241 | 4.15 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 160.6 | 6.23 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 180.7 | 5.53 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120.5 | 8.3 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.3 | 12.45 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.2 | 16.6 |
Half time 62.3 BPM · double time 249 BPM. Every row is one beat (481.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AnobrainThe 1975C major125BPM
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- Call Me When You’re SoberEvanescenceC major124BPM
- Jubel (radio edit)KlingandeC major125BPM
- The Christmas SongNeil DiamondC major125BPM
- Be Right ThereDiplo & Sleepy TomC major125BPM
- Crazy Love, Vol. IIPaul SimonC major125BPM
- If You Love Somebody Set Them FreeStingC major125BPM
- Real LoveClean Bandit & Jess GlynneC major125BPM
- StrongerClean BanditC major125BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 125 BPMC major at 120–129 BPMSteely Dan
MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6845ac3d-0250-43f3-ada7-b48bce6c226d.