Ray Charles · What’d I Say

Losing Hand

Losing Hand is in G minor at 125.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 222 analyses · 123.4–125.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
222people who ran the extractor
One beat
477.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.397Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.115Essentia'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

222 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 222 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 123.4 to 125.6 BPM.

At 125.6 BPM one beat lasts 477.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.4 ms and a dotted eighth 358.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 6.02 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 0.397 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 G 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 G minor

Each of these differs from G 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41910.80.52
Half note2955.41.05
Dotted quarter1.5716.61.4
Quarter note (one beat)1477.72.09
Quarter triplet0.667318.53.14
Dotted eighth0.75358.32.79
Eighth note0.5238.94.19
Eighth triplet0.333159.26.28
Dotted sixteenth0.375179.15.58
Sixteenth note0.25119.48.37
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.612.56
Thirty-second note0.12559.716.75

Half time 62.8 BPM · double time 251.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (477.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Lazy BirdJohn ColtraneG minor126BPM
  2. Smells Like Teen Spirit2CELLOSG minor126BPM
  3. Indo Silver ClubDaft PunkG minor126BPM
  4. Renegades of FunkRage Against the MachineG minor124BPM
  5. We’re an American BandGrand Funk RailroadG minor128BPM
  6. Dance to the MusicSly & the Family StoneG minor128BPM
  7. You Ain’t Got a Hold on MeAC/DCG minor128BPM
  8. Shake Your FoundationsAC/DCG minor123BPM
  9. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest WordElton JohnG minor129BPM
  10. Chop Suey!System of a DownG minor129BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 126 BPMG minor at 120–129 BPMRay Charles

MusicBrainz collapses 43 recording ids into this one. Recording id 81f66e5f-1de9-4951-891c-2f351cddda45.