TempoPeek

The Rolling Stones · Let It Bleed

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

You Can’t Always Get What You Want is in F major at 91.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

92 BPM · Andantemedian of 291 analyses · 91.6–178.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
291people who ran the extractor
One beat
653.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.85dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.463Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.087Essentia'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

291 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 291 readings; 56% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 91.6 to 178.2 BPM.

At 91.8 BPM one beat lasts 653.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163.4 ms and a dotted eighth 490.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 183.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.85 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 0.463 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 92 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42614.40.38
Half note21307.20.76
Dotted quarter1.5980.41.02
Quarter note (one beat)1653.61.53
Quarter triplet0.667435.72.3
Dotted eighth0.75490.22.04
Eighth note0.5326.83.06
Eighth triplet0.333217.94.59
Dotted sixteenth0.375245.14.08
Sixteenth note0.25163.46.12
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.99.18
Thirty-second note0.12581.712.24

Half time 45.9 BPM · double time 183.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (653.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Freedom 90George MichaelF major92BPM
  2. Working on the HighwayBruce SpringsteenF major92BPM
  3. Crazy LoveCeCe PenistonF major92BPM
  4. Imma BeThe Black Eyed PeasF major92BPM
  5. Let’s Get RockedDef LeppardF major92BPM
  6. GorgeousTaylor SwiftF major92BPM
  7. PartitionBeyoncéF major91BPM
  8. Goblink‐182F major91BPM
  9. Big RiverJohnny Cash and The Tennessee TwoF major91BPM
  10. Strangers in the NightFrank SinatraF major91BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 92 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 541 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9d8c543c-8dee-4aca-867e-909b496ca875.