The White Stripes · White Blood Cells
We’re Going to Be Friends
We’re Going to Be Friends is in C major at 97.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
98 BPM · Andantemedian of 144 analyses · 97.3–97.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 615.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.85dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.949Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.104Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 97.5 BPM one beat lasts 615.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.8 ms and a dotted eighth 461.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 195. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.85 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 0.949 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 98 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2461.5 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1230.8 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 923.1 | 1.08 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 615.4 | 1.63 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 410.3 | 2.44 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 461.5 | 2.17 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 307.7 | 3.25 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 205.1 | 4.88 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 230.8 | 4.33 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 153.8 | 6.5 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 102.6 | 9.75 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 76.9 | 13 |
Half time 48.8 BPM · double time 195 BPM. Every row is one beat (615.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Man Comes AroundJohnny CashC major97BPM
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- Saved by the BellRobin GibbC major97BPM
- Hot Fun in the SummertimeSly & the Family StoneC major97BPM
- Kid CharlemagneSteely DanC major97BPM
- Lover of MineBeach HouseC major97BPM
- The SignAce of BaseC major97BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 98 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMThe White Stripes
MusicBrainz collapses 45 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0dcd21fc-fbd6-415f-a2f3-69c1bad432ab.