TempoPeek

Erykah Badu · New Amerykah, Part One (4th World War)

Soldier

Soldier is in B minor at 92.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

93 BPM · Andantemedian of 142 analyses · 92.8–92.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
142people who ran the extractor
One beat
646.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
452.4Hz · +48 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.15dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.972Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
2.199Essentia'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

142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 142 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 92.8 BPM one beat lasts 646.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 161.6 ms and a dotted eighth 484.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 185.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.4 Hz, which is 48 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.15 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 0.972 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 B 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 B minor

Each of these differs from B 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 note42586.20.39
Half note21293.10.77
Dotted quarter1.5969.81.03
Quarter note (one beat)1646.61.55
Quarter triplet0.6674312.32
Dotted eighth0.75484.92.06
Eighth note0.5323.33.09
Eighth triplet0.333215.54.64
Dotted sixteenth0.375242.54.12
Sixteenth note0.25161.66.19
Sixteenth triplet0.167107.89.28
Thirty-second note0.12580.812.37

Half time 46.4 BPM · double time 185.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (646.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. SoldierEminemE♭ major95BPM
  2. SoldierDestiny’s Child feat. T.I. & Lil WayneB minor78BPM

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. Bitches Ain’t ShitDr. DreB minor92BPM
  2. Summer Moved Ona‐haB minor92BPM
  3. Mrs. RobinsonSimon & GarfunkelB minor92BPM
  4. KarmaBlack Eyed PeasB minor94BPM
  5. Not for MeBackstreet BoysB minor94BPM
  6. Don’t Turn AroundAce of BaseB minor96BPM
  7. Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM
  8. I’m Gettin’ Money2PacB minor96BPM
  9. BusinessEminemB minor96BPM
  10. The Guns of BrixtonThe ClashB minor97BPM

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

All songs in B minorAll songs at 93 BPMB minor at 90–99 BPMErykah Badu

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id 423480cc-a3b0-4e0c-96d1-5f4b151054be.