Red Hot Chili Peppers · Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Funky Monks
Funky Monks is in G major at 89.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
90 BPM · Andantemedian of 179 analyses · 89.8–89.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 179people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 668.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.942Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.375Essentia'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
179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 89.8 BPM one beat lasts 668.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 167 ms and a dotted eighth 501.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 179.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.4 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 0.942 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 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 90 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2672.6 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1336.3 | 0.75 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1002.2 | 1 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 668.2 | 1.5 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 445.4 | 2.24 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 501.1 | 2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 334.1 | 2.99 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 222.7 | 4.49 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 250.6 | 3.99 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 167 | 5.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 111.4 | 8.98 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 83.5 | 11.97 |
Half time 44.9 BPM · double time 179.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (668.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 90 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 90 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id a89e15ee-c14b-4d0e-867e-2652d40f3e03.