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Get Down, Make Love
Get Down, Make Love is in G minor at 143.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
144 BPM · Allegromedian of 149 analyses · 143.3–162.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 75%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 149people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 418.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.17dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.641Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.023Essentia'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
149 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 75% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 149 readings; 80% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 143.3 to 162.8 BPM.
At 143.5 BPM one beat lasts 418.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.5 ms and a dotted eighth 313.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 287. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 5.17 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 0.641 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 G 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 G minor
Each of these differs from G 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 144 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1672.5 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 836.2 | 1.2 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 627.2 | 1.59 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 418.1 | 2.39 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 278.7 | 3.59 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 313.6 | 3.19 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 209.1 | 4.78 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 139.4 | 7.18 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 156.8 | 6.38 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 104.5 | 9.57 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69.7 | 14.35 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.3 | 19.13 |
Half time 71.8 BPM · double time 287 BPM. Every row is one beat (418.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Shine On You Crazy DiamondPink FloydG minor144BPM
- The WhispererDavid Guetta feat. SiaG minor143BPM
- PlushStone Temple PilotsG minor144BPM
- MythBeach HouseG minor142BPM
- Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Bryan AdamsG minor145BPM
- Hand of DoomBlack SabbathG minor142BPM
- PsychoSystem of a DownG minor145BPM
- Never AgainKelly ClarksonG minor146BPM
- Heart Full of SoulThe YardbirdsG minor141BPM
- My LifeDidoG minor141BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 144 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 144 BPMG minor at 140–149 BPMQueen
MusicBrainz collapses 42 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6d908173-3107-4bfc-9b45-c9effeb140a7.