B.B. King & Eric Clapton · Riding With the King
Help the Poor
Help the Poor is in D minor at 107.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
107 BPM · Andantemedian of 132 analyses · 107.3–107.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 558.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.85dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.257Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 107.4 BPM one beat lasts 558.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.7 ms and a dotted eighth 419 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 214.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 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 0.931 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from D minor 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 107 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2234.6 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1117.3 | 0.9 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 838 | 1.19 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 558.7 | 1.79 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 372.4 | 2.69 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 419 | 2.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 279.3 | 3.58 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 186.2 | 5.37 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 209.5 | 4.77 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 139.7 | 7.16 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93.1 | 10.74 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 69.8 | 14.32 |
Half time 53.7 BPM · double time 214.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (558.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Brothers CupThe Red Hot Chili PeppersD minor107BPM
- Why Can’t I Be You?The CureD minor108BPM
- Long Time GoneCrosby, Stills & NashD minor107BPM
- Ella GuruCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandD minor107BPM
- Gimme the LightSean PaulD minor107BPM
- Enemy in MeShotgun MessiahD minor108BPM
- Bitter CreekEaglesD minor107BPM
- I Wanna RockTwisted SisterD minor107BPM
- And the Cradle Will Rock…Van HalenD minor108BPM
- Too ShyKajagoogooD minor108BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 107 BPMD minor at 100–109 BPMB.B. King & Eric Clapton
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id af9d3a32-c59e-46ce-b704-336e06f97de8.