TempoPeek

D’Angelo · Voodoo

Playa Playa

Playa Playa is in F minor at 83.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

84 BPM · Andantemedian of 136 analyses · 83.9–83.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
136people who ran the extractor
One beat
715.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.73dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.831Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.556Essentia'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

136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 83.9 BPM one beat lasts 715.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 178.8 ms and a dotted eighth 536.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42 BPM, counted twice as fast 167.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 6.73 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 0.831 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 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 F minor

Each of these differs from F 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 84 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42860.50.35
Half note21430.30.7
Dotted quarter1.51072.70.93
Quarter note (one beat)1715.11.4
Quarter triplet0.667476.82.1
Dotted eighth0.75536.41.86
Eighth note0.5357.62.8
Eighth triplet0.333238.44.2
Dotted sixteenth0.375268.23.73
Sixteenth note0.25178.85.59
Sixteenth triplet0.167119.28.39
Thirty-second note0.12589.411.19

Half time 42 BPM · double time 167.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (715.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. American WomanLenny KravitzF minor84BPM
  2. EnjoyBjörkF minor84BPM
  3. Just Got Back From Baby’sZZ TopF minor84BPM
  4. SuperstarCarpentersF minor84BPM
  5. XxplosiveDr. DreF minor84BPM
  6. The LifeAlicia KeysF minor85BPM
  7. Scentless ApprenticeNirvanaF minor85BPM
  8. MotoneuronPaul DinletirF minor85BPM
  9. Don’t Push Me50 Cent feat. Lloyd Banks of G Unit & EminemF minor86BPM
  10. Square DanceEminemF minor82BPM

Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F minorAll songs at 84 BPMF minor at 80–89 BPMD’Angelo

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 8855599d-3f4a-479f-bc6e-ce769a2adffd.