Red Hot Chili Peppers · Stadium Arcadium
Hard to Concentrate
Hard to Concentrate is in G major at 105.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
105 BPM · Andantemedian of 168 analyses · 105.4–148.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 81%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 168people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 569.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.9Hz · -0.5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.835Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.165Essentia'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
168 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 81% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 168 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 105.4 to 148.5 BPM.
At 105.4 BPM one beat lasts 569.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.3 ms and a dotted eighth 426.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 210.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.9 Hz, which is 0.5 cents below 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 3.59 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 0.835 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 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 105 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2277 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1138.5 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 853.9 | 1.17 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 569.3 | 1.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 379.5 | 2.64 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 426.9 | 2.34 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 284.6 | 3.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 189.8 | 5.27 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 213.5 | 4.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 142.3 | 7.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 94.9 | 10.54 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71.2 | 14.05 |
Half time 52.7 BPM · double time 210.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (569.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Time to Say GoodbyeSarah Brightman & Andrea BocelliG major106BPM
- Raining in My HeartBuddy Holly & The CricketsG major105BPM
- Let the Good Times RollRay CharlesG major106BPM
- FireRed Hot Chili PeppersG major105BPM
- It Ain’t Me BabeBob DylanG major105BPM
- The Needle and the Damage DoneNeil YoungG major106BPM
- Heaven Can WaitIron MaidenG major106BPM
- Wake Me Up When September EndsGreen DayG major105BPM
- VincentDon McLeanG major105BPM
- Sound and VisionDavid BowieG major106BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 105 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id b9720bd2-c1cb-4933-9699-990909ddaeb5.