Stevie Wonder · Innervisions
Jesus Children of America
Jesus Children of America is in G sharp minor at 103.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
104 BPM · Andantemedian of 131 analyses · 103.5–103.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 579.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.6Hz · +18 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.26dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.82Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.146Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 103.6 BPM one beat lasts 579.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.8 ms and a dotted eighth 434.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 207.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.6 Hz, which is 18 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 3.26 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 0.82 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 sharp 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 104 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2316.6 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1158.3 | 0.86 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 868.7 | 1.15 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 579.2 | 1.73 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 386.1 | 2.59 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 434.4 | 2.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 289.6 | 3.45 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 193.1 | 5.18 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 217.2 | 4.6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 144.8 | 6.91 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 96.5 | 10.36 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72.4 | 13.81 |
Half time 51.8 BPM · double time 207.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (579.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BeyondDaft PunkG♯ minor104BPM
- Wake Up AloneAmy WinehouseG♯ minor103BPM
- A New WorldBostonG♯ minor105BPM
- Spying GlassMassive AttackG♯ minor102BPM
- Liberian GirlMichael JacksonG♯ minor105BPM
- CronosJo BlankenburgG♯ minor106BPM
- Black Hole SunSoundgardenG♯ minor107BPM
- Some Sort of CreatureAWOLNATIONG♯ minor100BPM
- Flynn LivesDaft PunkG♯ minor108BPM
- Letter 2 My Unborn2PacG♯ minor108BPM
Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G sharp minorAll songs at 104 BPMG♯ minor at 100–109 BPMStevie Wonder
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id af2e5da1-bc1b-42ea-b2c2-f67a24914214.