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Eric B. Is President
Eric B. Is President is in C major at 96.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
97 BPM · Andantemedian of 135 analyses · 95.5–96.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 64%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 135people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 619.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.9Hz · -20 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.27dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.913Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.574Essentia'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
135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 64% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 95.5 to 96.9 BPM.
At 96.8 BPM one beat lasts 619.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 155 ms and a dotted eighth 464.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 193.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.9 Hz, which is 20 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 5.27 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 0.913 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 C major; 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 C major
Each of these differs from C major 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 97 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2479.3 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1239.7 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 929.8 | 1.08 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 619.8 | 1.61 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 413.2 | 2.42 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 464.9 | 2.15 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 309.9 | 3.23 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 206.6 | 4.84 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 232.4 | 4.3 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 155 | 6.45 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 103.3 | 9.68 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 77.5 | 12.91 |
Half time 48.4 BPM · double time 193.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (619.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- 5/4GorillazC major96BPM
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- Kid CharlemagneSteely DanC major97BPM
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 97 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMEric B. & Rakim
MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id c68f2137-a0bd-4846-a2a3-a274ebd64615.