Ben Harper · Fight for Your Mind
God Fearing Man
God Fearing Man is in A minor at 118 beats per minute.
Tempo
118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 129 analyses · 117.9–118 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 129people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 508.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 447.2Hz · +28 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.81dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.791Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.131Essentia'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
129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 118 BPM one beat lasts 508.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.1 ms and a dotted eighth 381.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59 BPM, counted twice as fast 236. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.2 Hz, which is 28 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 4.81 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 0.791 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 118 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2033.9 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1016.9 | 0.98 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 762.7 | 1.31 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 508.5 | 1.97 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 339 | 2.95 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 381.4 | 2.62 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 254.2 | 3.93 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 169.5 | 5.9 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 190.7 | 5.24 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 127.1 | 7.87 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 84.7 | 11.8 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 63.6 | 15.73 |
Half time 59 BPM · double time 236 BPM. Every row is one beat (508.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- SittingCat StevensA minor118BPM
- KlavierRammsteinA minor118BPM
- Stacy’s MomFountains of WayneA minor118BPM
- The House of the Rising SunThe AnimalsA minor118BPM
- Smooth CriminalMichael JacksonA minor118BPM
- No One Like YouScorpionsA minor118BPM
- I Do Not Want ThisNine Inch NailsA minor118BPM
- Neat Neat NeatThe DamnedA minor118BPM
- Is There Anybody Out There?Pink FloydA minor118BPM
- Wayfaring StrangerJohnny CashA minor118BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 118 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMBen Harper
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 793b42c5-8ba9-414d-8661-7e871d3c35e4.