TempoPeek

Red Hot Chili Peppers · Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Suck My Kiss

Suck My Kiss is in F major at 101.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

102 BPM · Andantemedian of 234 analyses · 101.5–101.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
234people who ran the extractor
One beat
590.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.3dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.971Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.45Essentia'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

234 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 234 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 101.6 BPM one beat lasts 590.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 147.6 ms and a dotted eighth 442.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 203.2. 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 2.3 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 0.971 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 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 102 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42362.20.42
Half note21181.10.85
Dotted quarter1.5885.81.13
Quarter note (one beat)1590.61.69
Quarter triplet0.667393.72.54
Dotted eighth0.75442.92.26
Eighth note0.5295.33.39
Eighth triplet0.333196.95.08
Dotted sixteenth0.375221.54.52
Sixteenth note0.25147.66.77
Sixteenth triplet0.16798.410.16
Thirty-second note0.12573.813.55

Half time 50.8 BPM · double time 203.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (590.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. For the First Time in Forever (from “Frozen” soundtrack version)Kristen Bell & Idina MenzelF major102BPM
  2. AeroplaneRed Hot Chili PeppersF major102BPM
  3. RunawayThe CorrsF major101BPM
  4. Glory & ConsequenceBen HarperF major102BPM
  5. Right Next to the Right OneCéline DionF major101BPM
  6. Neon Meate Dream of a OctafishCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandF major101BPM
  7. Folsom Prison BluesJohnny Cash and The Tennessee TwoF major102BPM
  8. It’s Only LoveBryan Adams with Tina TurnerF major101BPM
  9. My Fairy KingQueenF major103BPM
  10. StarmanDavid BowieF major101BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 102 BPMF major at 100–109 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers

MusicBrainz collapses 67 recording ids into this one. Recording id 07827297-ef9d-46a9-b05e-00e99e96f427.