Daryl Hall & John Oates · H₂O
Family Man
Family Man is in D minor at 131.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
131 BPM · Allegromedian of 147 analyses · 130.9–131.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 456.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.14dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.878Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.304Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 131.4 BPM one beat lasts 456.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.2 ms and a dotted eighth 342.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 262.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 4.14 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 0.878 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 131 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1826.5 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 913.2 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 684.9 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 456.6 | 2.19 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 304.4 | 3.29 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 342.5 | 2.92 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 228.3 | 4.38 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 152.2 | 6.57 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 171.2 | 5.84 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.2 | 8.76 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.1 | 13.14 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.1 | 17.52 |
Half time 65.7 BPM · double time 262.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (456.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Boogie WonderlandEarth, Wind & Fire with The EmotionsD minor132BPM
- RectifierDaft PunkD minor132BPM
- Cotton Eye JoeRednexD minor132BPM
- Cerro LargoApparatD minor130BPM
- SweatSnoop Dogg vs. David GuettaD minor130BPM
- In a LifetimeClannad & BonoD minor133BPM
- Prime Time of Your Life / Brainwasher / Rollin’ and Scratchin’ / AliveDaft PunkD minor130BPM
- Move OverJanis JoplinD minor133BPM
- Black Magic WomanFleetwood MacD minor130BPM
- Le Voyage de PénélopeAirD minor130BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 131 BPMD minor at 130–139 BPMDaryl Hall & John Oates
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9d45e226-201c-47fc-a8d8-fcc080180804.