Boney M. · Take the Heat Off Me
Daddy Cool
Daddy Cool is in F minor at 124.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 139 analyses · 124.3–125.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 481.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.28dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.939Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.58Essentia'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
139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 124.3 to 125.4 BPM.
At 124.7 BPM one beat lasts 481.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.3 ms and a dotted eighth 360.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 249.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.28 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 0.939 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 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1924.6 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 962.3 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 721.7 | 1.39 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 481.2 | 2.08 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 320.8 | 3.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 360.9 | 2.77 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 240.6 | 4.16 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 160.4 | 6.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 180.4 | 5.54 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120.3 | 8.31 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.2 | 12.47 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.1 | 16.63 |
Half time 62.4 BPM · double time 249.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (481.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- One Last TimeAriana GrandeF minor125BPM
- DragulaRob ZombieF minor125BPM
- Too Long / Steam MachineDaft PunkF minor125BPM
- Give It UpZZ TopF minor124BPM
- DoublebackZZ TopF minor124BPM
- Everything in Its Right PlaceRadioheadF minor124BPM
- Moon Over Bourbon StreetStingF minor126BPM
- BounceIggy AzaleaF minor126BPM
- Dust ClearsClean Bandit feat. Noonie BaoF minor126BPM
- The Way You MoveOutKast featuring Sleepy BrownF minor126BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 125 BPMF minor at 120–129 BPMBoney M.
MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id 09e57e08-f860-4e03-b773-1c6f995343d5.