TempoPeek

James Brown · Cold Sweat

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine is in E flat major at 107.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

108 BPM · Andantemedian of 270 analyses · 107.8–108.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
62%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
270people who ran the extractor
One beat
556.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436.5Hz · -14 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.78dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.947Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.439Essentia'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

270 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 62% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 270 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 107.8 BPM one beat lasts 556.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.1 ms and a dotted eighth 417.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 215.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.5 Hz, which is 14 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 3.78 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 0.947 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 E flat major; 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 E♭ major

Each of these differs from E♭ major 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 108 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42226.30.45
Half note21113.20.9
Dotted quarter1.5834.91.2
Quarter note (one beat)1556.61.8
Quarter triplet0.667371.12.7
Dotted eighth0.75417.42.4
Eighth note0.5278.33.59
Eighth triplet0.333185.55.39
Dotted sixteenth0.375208.74.79
Sixteenth note0.25139.17.19
Sixteenth triplet0.16792.810.78
Thirty-second note0.12569.614.37

Half time 53.9 BPM · double time 215.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (556.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Can’t DanceGenesisE♭ major108BPM
  2. Send Me an AngelScorpionsE♭ major108BPM
  3. Rock the BoatThe Hues CorporationE♭ major107BPM
  4. Queen of Las VegasThe B‐52sE♭ major107BPM
  5. Summit SiegeTim DaviesE♭ major109BPM
  6. She Said She SaidThe BeatlesE♭ major107BPM
  7. EverytimeBritney SpearsE♭ major110BPM
  8. Move AlongThe All‐American RejectsE♭ major110BPM
  9. In My HeadJason DerüloE♭ major110BPM
  10. HoudiniFoster the PeopleE♭ major110BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 108 BPME♭ major at 100–109 BPMJames Brown

MusicBrainz collapses 82 recording ids into this one. Recording id e03ab0c6-e5ef-43fe-a998-c4ec6aac8e5b.