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The Guess Who · American Woman

American Woman

American Woman is in A minor at 92.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

93 BPM · Andantemedian of 260 analyses · 92.7–93.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
49%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
260people who ran the extractor
One beat
645.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.45dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.811Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.112Essentia'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

260 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 49% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 260 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 92.9 BPM one beat lasts 645.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 161.5 ms and a dotted eighth 484.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 185.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.45 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 0.811 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 93 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42583.40.39
Half note21291.70.77
Dotted quarter1.5968.81.03
Quarter note (one beat)1645.91.55
Quarter triplet0.667430.62.32
Dotted eighth0.75484.42.06
Eighth note0.5322.93.1
Eighth triplet0.333215.34.65
Dotted sixteenth0.375242.24.13
Sixteenth note0.25161.56.19
Sixteenth triplet0.167107.69.29
Thirty-second note0.12580.712.39

Half time 46.5 BPM · double time 185.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (645.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. American WomanLenny KravitzF minor84BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Jane DoeAlicia KeysA minor93BPM
  2. Girl on FireAlicia KeysA minor93BPM
  3. StarboyThe Weeknd featuring Daft PunkA minor93BPM
  4. No Matter WhatBoyzoneA minor93BPM
  5. Get ReadyEric ClaptonA minor93BPM
  6. Swamp MusicLynyrd SkynyrdA minor93BPM
  7. Killing Me SoftlyFugeesA minor92BPM
  8. Behind the SunThe Red Hot Chili PeppersA minor93BPM
  9. Still D.R.E.Dr. DreA minor93BPM
  10. Still D.R.E.Dr. Dre featuring Snoop DoggA minor93BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 93 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id a08da3bb-9c56-4668-a272-b01ad80f3209.