Florence + the Machine · How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

What Kind of Man

What Kind of Man is in A minor at 114.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 141 analyses · 114.6–114.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
141people who ran the extractor
One beat
523.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.11dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.789Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.069Essentia'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

141 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 141 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 114.7 BPM one beat lasts 523.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 130.8 ms and a dotted eighth 392.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 229.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 5.11 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 0.789 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 115 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42092.40.48
Half note21046.20.96
Dotted quarter1.5784.71.27
Quarter note (one beat)1523.11.91
Quarter triplet0.667348.72.87
Dotted eighth0.75392.32.55
Eighth note0.5261.63.82
Eighth triplet0.333174.45.74
Dotted sixteenth0.375196.25.1
Sixteenth note0.25130.87.65
Sixteenth triplet0.16787.211.47
Thirty-second note0.12565.415.29

Half time 57.4 BPM · double time 229.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (523.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Get on TopRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor115BPM
  2. In Memory of Elizabeth ReedThe Allman Brothers BandA minor115BPM
  3. A Fool for Your StockingsZZ TopA minor115BPM
  4. While My Guitar Gently WeepsThe BeatlesA minor115BPM
  5. Don’t Need Y’allIggy AzaleaA minor114BPM
  6. RammsteinRammsteinA minor114BPM
  7. 25 BucksDanny Brown featuring Purity RingA minor116BPM
  8. SmoothSantana featuring Rob ThomasA minor116BPM
  9. New RulesDua LipaA minor116BPM
  10. When the World Was at War We Kept DancingLana Del ReyA minor116BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 115 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMFlorence + the Machine

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id ffcb45c3-7f32-427d-b3d4-287664bbcdb9.