TempoPeek

Wilson Pickett · The Wicked Pickett

Mustang Sally

Mustang Sally is in F major at 109.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

110 BPM · Moderatomedian of 201 analyses · 109.6–110.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
49%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
201people who ran the extractor
One beat
546.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
435.4Hz · -18 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.32dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.912Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.213Essentia'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

201 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 49% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 201 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 109.8 BPM one beat lasts 546.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 136.6 ms and a dotted eighth 409.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 219.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.4 Hz, which is 18 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 3.32 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 0.912 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 110 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42185.80.46
Half note21092.90.91
Dotted quarter1.5819.71.22
Quarter note (one beat)1546.41.83
Quarter triplet0.667364.32.75
Dotted eighth0.75409.82.44
Eighth note0.5273.23.66
Eighth triplet0.333182.15.49
Dotted sixteenth0.375204.94.88
Sixteenth note0.25136.67.32
Sixteenth triplet0.16791.110.98
Thirty-second note0.12568.314.64

Half time 54.9 BPM · double time 219.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (546.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Mustang SallyThe CommitmentsF minor115BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. You Make It EasyAir & Beth HirschF major110BPM
  2. Live to TellMadonnaF major110BPM
  3. MisledCéline DionF major110BPM
  4. Cold ShoulderAdeleF major110BPM
  5. Love in the DarkAdeleF major110BPM
  6. Un‐Break My HeartToni BraxtonF major110BPM
  7. Biggie BounceDiplo feat. Angger Dimas & Travis PorterF major110BPM
  8. Better TogetherJack JohnsonF major110BPM
  9. SolitudeBlack SabbathF major110BPM
  10. The StairsINXSF major110BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 110 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 110 BPMF major at 100–109 BPMWilson Pickett

MusicBrainz collapses 50 recording ids into this one. Recording id 05b4476f-7f3c-41a2-a71d-215a0c66bfd5.