Ray Charles · Soul of a Man
A Fool for You
A Fool for You is in B flat major at 132.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
132 BPM · Allegromedian of 250 analyses · 132.1–132.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 250people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 453.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 435.2Hz · -19 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.57dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.271Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.011Essentia'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
250 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 250 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 132.4 BPM one beat lasts 453.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.3 ms and a dotted eighth 339.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 264.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.2 Hz, which is 19 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 6.57 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 0.271 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 flat 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 B♭ major
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 132 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1812.7 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 906.3 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 679.8 | 1.47 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 453.2 | 2.21 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 302.1 | 3.31 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 339.9 | 2.94 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 226.6 | 4.41 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 151.1 | 6.62 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 169.9 | 5.88 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 113.3 | 8.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.5 | 13.24 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.6 | 17.65 |
Half time 66.2 BPM · double time 264.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (453.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- HouseworkThe B‐52sB♭ major132BPM
- Wave of MutilationPixiesB♭ major133BPM
- All at OnceWhitney HoustonB♭ major133BPM
- Justify My LoveMadonnaB♭ major133BPM
- She’s Only Happy When She’s Dancin’Bryan AdamsB♭ major132BPM
- Dear Mr. PresidentP!nk featuring Indigo GirlsB♭ major132BPM
- ’S WonderfulElla FitzgeraldB♭ major133BPM
- No LineMiles DavisB♭ major133BPM
- The Millionaire WaltzQueenB♭ major132BPM
- SpecialGarbageB♭ major132BPM
Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 132 BPMB♭ major at 130–139 BPMRay Charles
MusicBrainz collapses 51 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8ae3e8a3-3bbc-4dfc-a5fd-8784107b784f.