The Beatles · Rubber Soul
In My Life
In My Life is in D major at 103.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
103 BPM · Andantemedian of 174 analyses · 103.2–103.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 67%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 174people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 580.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.01dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.936Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.163Essentia'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
174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 67% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 103.4 BPM one beat lasts 580.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 145.1 ms and a dotted eighth 435.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 206.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 3.01 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 0.936 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 103 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2321.1 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1160.5 | 0.86 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 870.4 | 1.15 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 580.3 | 1.72 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 386.8 | 2.59 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 435.2 | 2.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 290.1 | 3.45 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 193.4 | 5.17 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 217.6 | 4.6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 145.1 | 6.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 96.7 | 10.34 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72.5 | 13.79 |
Half time 51.7 BPM · double time 206.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (580.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Creature FearBon IverD major104BPM
- Open ArmsJourneyD major103BPM
- Something Just Like ThisThe Chainsmokers & ColdplayD major103BPM
- Get TogetherThe YoungbloodsD major104BPM
- To Live Is to DieMetallicaD major104BPM
- When the Body SpeaksDepeche ModeD major103BPM
- TryP!nkD major104BPM
- Hey There DelilahPlain White T’sD major104BPM
- I’m in ControlAlunaGeorge feat. PopcaanD major104BPM
- Glass of WaterColdplayD major104BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 103 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id 08a5cc77-ce79-4875-859e-8c3d172a6d17.