Nelly Furtado · Loose
Say It Right
Say It Right is in F minor at 117 beats per minute.
Tempo
117 BPM · Moderatomedian of 271 analyses · 117–117 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 271people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 512.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.19dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.959Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.579Essentia'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
271 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 271 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 117 BPM one beat lasts 512.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 128.2 ms and a dotted eighth 384.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 234. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 5.19 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 0.959 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 117 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2051.3 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1025.6 | 0.98 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 769.2 | 1.3 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 512.8 | 1.95 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 341.9 | 2.93 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 384.6 | 2.6 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 256.4 | 3.9 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 170.9 | 5.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 192.3 | 5.2 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 128.2 | 7.8 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 85.5 | 11.7 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.1 | 15.6 |
Half time 58.5 BPM · double time 234 BPM. Every row is one beat (512.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Minor MarchMiles DavisF minor117BPM
- Smells Like Teen SpiritNirvanaF minor118BPM
- MichelleThe BeatlesF minor118BPM
- PaparazziLady GagaF minor115BPM
- Cause We’ve Ended as LoversJeff BeckF minor115BPM
- Mustang SallyThe CommitmentsF minor115BPM
- Lose My BreathDestiny’s ChildF minor119BPM
- Wendy Clearblink‐182F minor115BPM
- The Keys to Life vs. 15 Minutes of FameAtmosphereF minor115BPM
- St. JudeFlorence + the MachineF minor120BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 117 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 117 BPMF minor at 110–119 BPMNelly Furtado
MusicBrainz collapses 46 recording ids into this one. Recording id ac105a7f-c97b-4f9d-850f-46616f8cd915.