Craig David feat. Sting · Slicker Than Your Average
Rise & Fall
Rise & Fall is in F sharp minor at 84 beats per minute.
Tempo
84 BPM · Andantemedian of 140 analyses · 84–84 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F♯ minor3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 140people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 714.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.03dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.869Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.258Essentia'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
140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F sharp minor, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 84 BPM one beat lasts 714.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 178.6 ms and a dotted eighth 535.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42 BPM, counted twice as fast 168. 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 5.03 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 0.869 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 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 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 84 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2857.1 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1428.6 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1071.4 | 0.93 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 714.3 | 1.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 476.2 | 2.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 535.7 | 1.87 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 357.1 | 2.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 238.1 | 4.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 267.9 | 3.73 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 178.6 | 5.6 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 119 | 8.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.3 | 11.2 |
Half time 42 BPM · double time 168 BPM. Every row is one beat (714.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Black MilkMassive AttackF♯ minor84BPM
- PedestalPortisheadF♯ minor84BPM
- Shape of My HeartStingF♯ minor84BPM
- Acid RainChance the RapperF♯ minor85BPM
- Dear Future HusbandMeghan TrainorF♯ minor79BPM
- No DiggityBlackstreet featuring Dr. DreF♯ minor89BPM
- It’s a FirePortisheadF♯ minor89BPM
- I Hate Everything About YouThree Days GraceF♯ minor89BPM
- Ski Mask Way50 CentF♯ minor90BPM
- OblivionGrimesF♯ minor78BPM
Recordings in F sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F sharp minorAll songs at 84 BPMF♯ minor at 80–89 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id cc448320-373e-4e03-aa5a-14a65eba2969.