TempoPeek

Sly & the Family Stone · There’s a Riot Goin’ On

Family Affair

Family Affair is in C major at 108.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

109 BPM · Moderatomedian of 128 analyses · 108.6–109 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
51%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
551.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.1dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.825Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.321Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 51% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 108.8 BPM one beat lasts 551.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 137.9 ms and a dotted eighth 413.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 217.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.1 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 0.825 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 109 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42205.90.45
Half note21102.90.91
Dotted quarter1.5827.21.21
Quarter note (one beat)1551.51.81
Quarter triplet0.667367.62.72
Dotted eighth0.75413.62.42
Eighth note0.5275.73.63
Eighth triplet0.333183.85.44
Dotted sixteenth0.375206.84.84
Sixteenth note0.25137.97.25
Sixteenth triplet0.16791.910.88
Thirty-second note0.12568.914.51

Half time 54.4 BPM · double time 217.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (551.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)James TaylorC major109BPM
  2. All Out of LoveAir SupplyC major109BPM
  3. BeginningsChicago Transit AuthorityC major109BPM
  4. In My BedSabrina CarpenterC major109BPM
  5. The One That You LoveAir SupplyC major109BPM
  6. Another RoundFoo FightersC major109BPM
  7. Down on the CornerCreedence Clearwater RevisitedC major108BPM
  8. Song Sung BlueNeil DiamondC major109BPM
  9. Black LimousineThe Rolling StonesC major109BPM
  10. Wasted Time (reprise)EaglesC major110BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 109 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 109 BPMC major at 100–109 BPMSly & the Family Stone

MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id e007b469-f424-490b-b3f2-ff21f12d1989.