The Beach Boys · 20/20
I Can Hear Music
I Can Hear Music is in D major at 128.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
129 BPM · Allegromedian of 197 analyses · 128.2–128.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 197people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 466.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.46dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.935Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.009Essentia'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
197 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 197 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 128.6 BPM one beat lasts 466.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.6 ms and a dotted eighth 349.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 257.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 3.46 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 0.935 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 129 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1866.3 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 933.1 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 699.8 | 1.43 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 466.6 | 2.14 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 311 | 3.22 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 349.9 | 2.86 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 233.3 | 4.29 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 155.5 | 6.43 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175 | 5.72 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 116.6 | 8.57 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.8 | 12.86 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.3 | 17.15 |
Half time 64.3 BPM · double time 257.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (466.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- First of MayBee GeesD major129BPM
- CarsGary NumanD major129BPM
- Smack3 Doors DownD major129BPM
- For You BlueThe BeatlesD major129BPM
- Walking in MemphisCherD major129BPM
- Who’s That Chick?David Guetta feat. RihannaD major128BPM
- Wind UpFoo FightersD major128BPM
- Without YouDavid Guetta feat. UsherD major128BPM
- Fade AwayCéline DionD major128BPM
- I Rememberdeadmau5 & KaskadeD major128BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 129 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMThe Beach Boys
MusicBrainz collapses 64 recording ids into this one. Recording id 790ac5fa-6957-4875-ad4f-fc6c36acd676.