Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud, Pt. 1

142 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. 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 114.9 BPM one beat lasts 522.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 130.5 ms and a dotted eighth 391.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 229.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 5.01 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 0.857 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 flat major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.