Lenny Kravitz · Are You Gonna Go My Way
Heaven Help
Heaven Help is in B minor at 85.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
86 BPM · Andantemedian of 141 analyses · 85.8–86 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
- 141people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 698.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.22dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.863Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.213Essentia'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. 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 141 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 85.9 BPM one beat lasts 698.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 174.6 ms and a dotted eighth 523.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43 BPM, counted twice as fast 171.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 5.22 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 0.863 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 86 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2793.9 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1397 | 0.72 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1047.7 | 0.95 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 698.5 | 1.43 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 465.7 | 2.15 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 523.9 | 1.91 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 349.2 | 2.86 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 232.8 | 4.3 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 261.9 | 3.82 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 174.6 | 5.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 116.4 | 8.59 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 87.3 | 11.45 |
Half time 43 BPM · double time 171.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (698.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- 10 BandsDrakeB minor87BPM
- I Can’t Tell You WhyEaglesB minor85BPM
- Hands UpThe Black Eyed PeasB minor87BPM
- Alone Again OrLoveB minor87BPM
- The Show Must Go OnQueenB minor84BPM
- StrangersPortisheadB minor84BPM
- Miss IndependentKelly ClarksonB minor88BPM
- GrindAlice in ChainsB minor89BPM
- Havana AffairRamonesB minor89BPM
- Locked UpAkonB minor90BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 86 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 86 BPMB minor at 80–89 BPMLenny Kravitz
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 38a46db2-0b50-417d-ad5d-9721f9146b38.