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10 Bands

10 Bands is in B minor at 86.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

87 BPM · Andantemedian of 146 analyses · 86.5–86.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
146people who ran the extractor
One beat
693.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
432.7Hz · -29 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.82dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.43Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.172Essentia'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

146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 86.5 BPM one beat lasts 693.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 173.4 ms and a dotted eighth 520.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 173. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 432.7 Hz, which is 29 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 5.82 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 0.43 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 B 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 B minor

Each of these differs from B 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 87 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42774.60.36
Half note21387.30.72
Dotted quarter1.51040.50.96
Quarter note (one beat)1693.61.44
Quarter triplet0.667462.42.16
Dotted eighth0.75520.21.92
Eighth note0.5346.82.88
Eighth triplet0.333231.24.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375260.13.84
Sixteenth note0.25173.45.77
Sixteenth triplet0.167115.68.65
Thirty-second note0.12586.711.53

Half time 43.3 BPM · double time 173 BPM. Every row is one beat (693.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Hands UpThe Black Eyed PeasB minor87BPM
  2. Alone Again OrLoveB minor87BPM
  3. Heaven HelpLenny KravitzB minor86BPM
  4. I Can’t Tell You WhyEaglesB minor85BPM
  5. Miss IndependentKelly ClarksonB minor88BPM
  6. GrindAlice in ChainsB minor89BPM
  7. The Show Must Go OnQueenB minor84BPM
  8. StrangersPortisheadB minor84BPM
  9. Havana AffairRamonesB minor89BPM
  10. Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM

Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B minorAll songs at 87 BPMB minor at 80–89 BPMDrake

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id da446a97-51ff-4d31-a46b-5f873bf2d99f.