TempoPeek

Sly & the Family Stone · Stand!

Stand!

Stand! is in A flat major at 108 beats per minute.

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Tempo

108 BPM · Moderatomedian of 144 analyses · 107.8–108.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
59%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
144people who ran the extractor
One beat
555.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
451.1Hz · +43 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.74dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.145Essentia'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

144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 59% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 108 BPM one beat lasts 555.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 138.9 ms and a dotted eighth 416.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54 BPM, counted twice as fast 216. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 451.1 Hz, which is 43 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.74 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 0.925 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 A 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 A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ 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 note42222.20.45
Half note21111.10.9
Dotted quarter1.5833.31.2
Quarter note (one beat)1555.61.8
Quarter triplet0.667370.42.7
Dotted eighth0.75416.72.4
Eighth note0.5277.83.6
Eighth triplet0.333185.25.4
Dotted sixteenth0.375208.34.8
Sixteenth note0.25138.97.2
Sixteenth triplet0.16792.610.8
Thirty-second note0.12569.414.4

Half time 54 BPM · double time 216 BPM. Every row is one beat (555.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. StandR.E.M.E major109BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. DesireU2A♭ major108BPM
  2. Atlantic CityBruce SpringsteenA♭ major108BPM
  3. The Best Is Yet to ComeFrank Sinatra & Count BasieA♭ major109BPM
  4. Somebody to LoveQueenA♭ major110BPM
  5. Hungry HeartBruce SpringsteenA♭ major110BPM
  6. Stand Up for Love (2005 World Children’s Day Anthem)Destiny’s ChildA♭ major106BPM
  7. Breaking DownFlorence + the MachineA♭ major110BPM
  8. Quiet TimesDidoA♭ major110BPM
  9. EpilogueTim DaviesA♭ major110BPM
  10. BoyInstupendoA♭ major110BPM

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

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 108 BPMA♭ major at 100–109 BPMSly & the Family Stone

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id c6da5f7f-11ad-476e-9dee-64eea1ac674d.